Best use of bioinformatics
Yusuke Endoh
mame@ruby-lang.org
https://github.com/mame/
Judges' comments:
To build:
make
To run:
./prog < input > output
Try:
echo Hello | ./prog
echo Hello | ./prog > hello.c
make hello
./hello
Selected Judges Remarks:
If you look closely at the source, you will see code that appears to puts C code that includes itself. How and why? Perhaps it is in the DNA code of the code? Perhaps there are 23 reasons? :-)
Author's comments:
Remarks
This chromosome program synthesizes a double helix. The helix can also be compiled as a C program.
Enjoy DNA programming!
For more information / backgroud reading:
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This program was inspired by Acme::DoubleHelix: http://search.cpan.org/~xern/Acme-DoubleHelix-0.01/
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The synthesized helix just includes the original program at the head. Do you see how
prog.cdetermines whether it was invoked as a standalone program or included as a header file? Note that it does not use any gcc extension such as__INCLUDE_LEVEL__. -
The synthesized helix of course follows the base-pairing rules for DNA: A is bonding only to T, and C is bonding only to G.