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DNA to Amino Acid Converter
This program asks the user for a length of a DNA strand, it then generates the strand and converts it to RNA. After, it splits the RNA into Codons and then converts it into an Amino Acid Chain.
import random
print("Welcome to Royce's DNA to Amino Acid Converter")
#asks user for length of chain
userlength = int(input("How long should the DNA strand be"))
#generates DNA strand
allamino = ["A" ,"T" , "C" , "G"]
DNA = []
RNA = []
for x in range(0,userlength,1):
amino = random.randint(0,3)
DNA.append(allamino[amino])
print("This is the DNA Strand " + "\n" + str(DNA))
#converts to RNA
for x in range(0,len(DNA),1):
if DNA[x] == "A":
RNA.append("U")
elif DNA[x] == "T":
RNA.append("A")
elif DNA[x] == "C":
RNA.append("G")
elif DNA[x] == "G":
RNA.append("C")
print("This is the RNA strand " + "\n" + str(RNA))
#splits RNA into codons
codons=[]
amountcodons = len(RNA)/3
for x in range(0,int(amountcodons),1):
holder = RNA[x] +RNA[x+1] + RNA[x+2]
codons.append(holder)
holder = 0
print("This is the RNA split into codons " + "\n" + str(codons))
#converts the codons into amino acids
allamino = ["Lysine", "Asparagine","Isoleucine","Methionine","Threonine" ,"Arginine" ,"Serine","Stop Codon",
"Tyrosine","Leucine","Phenylalanine","Cysteine","Tryptophan","Glutamine","Histidine",
"Proline","Arginine","Glutamic Acid","Aspartic Acid","Valine","Alanine","Glycine"]
aminoacid = []
for x in range(0,int(amountcodons),1):
if codons[x] == "AAA" or codons[x] == "AAG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[0])
elif codons[x] == "AAU" or codons[x] == "AAC":
aminoacid.append(allamino[1])
elif codons[x] == "AUA" or codons[x] == "AUU" or codons[x] =="AUC":
aminoacid.append(allamino[2])
elif codons[x] =="AUG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[3])
elif codons[x] =="ACA" or codons[x] =="ACU" or codons[x]=="ACC" or codons[x]=="ACG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[4])
elif codons[x] =="AGA" or codons[x] =="AGG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[5])
elif codons[x] =="AGU" or codons[x] =="AGC" or codons[x] =="UCA" or codons[x] =="UCU" or codons[x] =="UCC" or codons[x] =="UCG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[6])
elif codons[x] =="UAA" or codons[x] =="UAG" or codons[x] =="UGA":
aminoacid.append(allamino[7])
elif codons[x] =="UAU" or codons[x] =="UAC":
aminoacid.append(allamino[8])
elif codons[x] =="UUA" or codons[x] =="UUG" or codons[x] =="CUA" or codons[x] =="CUU" or codons[x] =="CUC" or codons[x] =="CUG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[9])
elif codons[x] =="UUU" or codons[x] =="UUC":
aminoacid.append(allamino[10])
elif codons[x] =="UGU" or codons[x] =="UGC":
aminoacid.append(allamino[11])
elif codons[x] =="UGG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[12])
elif codons[x] =="CAA" or codons[x] =="CAG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[13])
elif codons[x] =="CAU" or codons[x] =="CAC":
aminoacid.append(allamino[14])
elif codons[x] =="CCA" or codons[x] =="CCU" or codons[x] =="CCC" or codons[x] =="CCG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[15])
elif codons[x] =="CGA" or codons[x] =="CGU" or codons[x] =="CGC" or codons[x] =="CGG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[16])
elif codons[x] =="GAA" or codons[x] =="GAG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[17])
elif codons[x] =="GAU" or codons[x] =="GAC":
aminoacid.append(allamino[18])
elif codons[x] =="GUA" or codons[x] =="GUU" or codons[x] =="GUC" or codons[x] =="GUG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[19])
elif codons[x] =="GCA" or codons[x] =="GCU" or codons[x] =="GCC" or codons[x] =="GCG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[20])
elif codons[x] =="GGA" or codons[x] =="GGU" or codons[x] =="GGC" or codons[x] =="GGG":
aminoacid.append(allamino[21])
print("This is the amino acid chain " + "\n" + str(aminoacid))
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