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tRNA Conformation Searching
Description:
This was my very first coding project for which I was paid. I was a paid research assistant in computational chemistry during the summers of my undergraduate honours degreee. The work involved continuing building this application, which took in a base sequence of a transfer RNA molecule and predicted its most energetically favourable conformation.
Impact of the Product:
My research principals went on to use the appplication to make predictions about how tRNA molecules behave.
Challenges:
As I had not coded in C before (this was 1992, after all!), I had to learn quickly to get up to speed and adapt my knowledge of Pascal from the previous year's computer coding course to C syntax.
Technologies Used:
- C;