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Thread: The Bio Engineer's Job On Base Destruction for Dummies
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Khragon
Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:52 am
#1
This is as simple an explanation as I can give on how the BE does their part of the sequence in destroying a Player Base. You do not need to be a MBA in DNA Professional BEng. to know what to do, its very simple, but there is 4 things you DO NEED TO KNOW.
A=T, T=A, C=G and G=C
If you are a BE and ever plan to help destroy a base, have this written down as this is the only realrequired knowledge to complete the BE portion of a base destruction. Now down to the "what do I do?". You have a total of 23 matches you need to make.
When you hack the Override Terminal a pop up window will display. Something like:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 0
Sampled Chain: ACA
C
T
A
A
C
G
C
T
etc etc for a total of 23 in the list
The main idea is that you are trying to match the first letter in the "Sampled Chain" with its opposite like I posted at the top in red letters...the opposite of A is T and the opposite of T is A. The opposite of C is G and the opposite of G is C. Looking at the above Sampled Chain: ACA you have to choose a letter from the provided list of 23 options that matches the first letter...in this case it would be T, because T is the opposite of A. You can always ignore everything after the first letter as the remaining letters are ilrelevent
C
T <- Choose
A
A
C
G
C
T
etc etc
It will then tell you that you have matched 1 Nucleotide, then it resets the window to show the 1 match you made of the 23 total you need to make and the sampled chain will change, something like:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 1
Sampled Chain: TGCCA
C
TA
A
A
C
G
C
etc etc
Sampled Chain: TGCCA this time requires to you match the T....remember you are only matching the first letter of the sampled chain, ignore the other letters. Opposite of T is A, so in the list you would choose A. You can choose any "A" in the list of 23 letters, it would not matter because eventually you will have to match all of them anyways.
C
TA
A < - Choose
A
C
G
C
Eventually you will come to a point where the opposite letter you have to choose from the list to matchthe Sampled Chains first letter will not be present. You will only have double letters in the list and maybe a few single letters that are not the one you want. Something like:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 15
Sampled Chain: ACGGT
CG
TA
AT
AT
CG
GC
CG
A
G
etc etc
In this example the Sampled Chain:ACGGT you wanted a single T to match to the letter A, but there is none left in the list. This basically means no matter what you choose this time, it will not be correct. So choose any of the double letters you see which will result in the reply "You have matched 0 nucleotides", then the window will reset again with a new Sampled Chain.
Lets assume you have matched 15 of the 23 so far, this means you have to match 8 more from the list. The idea is to keep reseting the window and obtaining a new "Sampled Chain" with the first letter that matches theremaining 8 single letters you need to match up. For example, assume you still have the letters G,G,G,G,C,C,C,T left to match from your list. Meaning you need Sampled Chains that start with C,C,C,C,G,G,A in order to complete your final 8 matches. Anytime you get a sampled chain that you cannot choose from your remaining 8, just choose any from the list so a new window comes up with a new sample chain and keep doing that until you get chains that you can match up to.
CapricornONE
Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:36 pm
#2
Thank you *SO* much.. This is, by far, the best explanation I have seen.
*Bow's to you*
Aneilym
Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:13 pm
#3
I like this one too. The others I read were confusing. I actually did this for the first time two nights ago it was fun. it took me a while to get through it all but I enjoyed the whole thing.
Talthazar
Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:06 pm
#4
How quickly does this get you through it? This looks like it may be one for the faq thread. 
Dispenser
Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:55 am
#7
The method posted here takes anywhere between 2 and 6 minutes give or take. A few things to remember when doing this, its ALWAYS different, so sometimes it will take longer then others. You will find that you run out of single letters earlier then others sometimes when you do this. Its all about the luck of the letters which dictates how fast it will go, but at least knowing what you are doing you can enjoy it more and that gets you through it quicker as well.
Arez_Olympus
Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:15 am
#9
I thought I read in another thread about base destruction that the matching of your sampled chain will start at the letter you choose, so in your example:
Sampled Chain: TGCCA
C
TA
A
AT (match) < - Choose
C G (match)
G C (match)
C C (no match)
when you choose the 2nd A, that A would be matched with theT from your sampled chain, and the C below that A would match with the 2nd letter in the chain, the G and also the G below the C would match with the 3rd letter in your chain, the C?
Message Edited by Arez_Olympus on 02-20-2004 03:16 PM
Chet-Flurry
Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:56 am
#10
/5-starKraghon
Thank you! Just wanted to say this was great!
Chet-Flurry
Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:58 am
#11
Oh crap... sorry for misspelling your name Khragon!
/slap Chet
Cocomono
Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:10 am
#12
Arez_Olympus wrote:
I thought I read in another thread about base destruction that the matching of your sampled chain will start at the letter you choose, so in your example:
Sampled Chain: TGCCA
C
TA
A
AT (match) < - Choose
C G (match)
G C (match)
C C (no match)
when you choose the 2nd A, that A would be matched with theT from your sampled chain, and the C below that A would match with the 2nd letter in the chain, the G and also the G below the C would match with the 3rd letter in your chain, the C?
Message Edited by Arez_Olympus on 02-20-2004 03:16 PM
That is correct. You can get mutliple matches from 1 strand. You don't have to rely on just the beginning letter, which can slow you down on the last few matches. Say if you had a strand AATCGC and you picked the first letter in this list
AT ->A (No match)
TA ->A (No match)
CG ->T (No match)
G ->C (Match)
TA ->G (No match)
AT ->C (No match)
If you picked the top pair AT you would get a positive match for the single G
Khragon
Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:04 am
#13
Yep I found this too, but the only thing is I find this to be more for the experienced BE whos more comfortable. A new BE when a battle is going on outside around them and people screaming in group chat "HOW MUCH LONGER!?!!", etc that taking the time to try and get mutliple match sets out of 1 string will only slow things down or make them more nervous. True, you can get mutiple matches, but IMO its not necessarily faster because you now have to analyze every letter in the chain and match them to the list of 23 1 at a time rather then the first one only.
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