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Introduction Welcome to the second entry in the ROSALIND problem series! Today we will be solving two problems: transcribing DNA to RNA and taking the reverse complement of a DNA sequence. This will let us learn some basics of efficient string manipulation in Go. As always, solutions are in the associated GitHub repo. Problem 1: Transcribing DNA into RNA Transcription is a core biological process which allows genetic information stored in double-stranded DNA to be copied into single-stranded RNA....

Hey everyone! My name is Willow Carretero Chavez. As of the writing of this post, I am about to enter my final semester of an undergraduate degree in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I’m hoping to use this blog to share various things I’ve learned over the years in the realms of software engineering, biology, and the intersection of the two. Online tutorials and blogs have been a huge resource for me over the years, and I want to pay it forward!...

Introduction Lately I’ve found myself with far too much time on my hands and the need to pick up a new better hobby. What better to do than blog! In this series, we’ll be working through problems from rosalind.info, a collection of bioinformatics practice problems. For no reason in particular other than a recent obsession with the language gained during my time as an intern at Google, we will be solving these problems in Go....