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# RNA Transcription
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Welcome to RNA Transcription on Exercism's Elixir Track.
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If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
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## Introduction
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You work for a bioengineering company that specializes in developing therapeutic solutions.
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Your team has just been given a new project to develop a targeted therapy for a rare type of cancer.
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~~~~exercism/note
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It's all very complicated, but the basic idea is that sometimes people's bodies produce too much of a given protein.
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That can cause all sorts of havoc.
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But if you can create a very specific molecule (called a micro-RNA), it can prevent the protein from being produced.
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This technique is called [RNA Interference][rnai].
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[rnai]: https://admin.acceleratingscience.com/ask-a-scientist/what-is-rnai/
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~~~~
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## Instructions
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Your task is determine the RNA complement of a given DNA sequence.
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Both DNA and RNA strands are a sequence of nucleotides.
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The four nucleotides found in DNA are adenine (**A**), cytosine (**C**), guanine (**G**) and thymine (**T**).
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The four nucleotides found in RNA are adenine (**A**), cytosine (**C**), guanine (**G**) and uracil (**U**).
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Given a DNA strand, its transcribed RNA strand is formed by replacing each nucleotide with its complement:
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- `G` -> `C`
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- `C` -> `G`
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- `T` -> `A`
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- `A` -> `U`
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~~~~exercism/note
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If you want to look at how the inputs and outputs are structured, take a look at the examples in the test suite.
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~~~~
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## Source
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### Created by
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- @rubysolo
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### Contributed to by
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- @angelikatyborska
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- @Cohen-Carlisle
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- @dalexj
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- @devonestes
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- @drueck
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- @jinyeow
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- @lpil
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- @neenjaw
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- @parkerl
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- @pminten
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- @sotojuan
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- @Teapane
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- @tjcelaya
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- @veelenga
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- @waiting-for-dev
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### Based on
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Hyperphysics - https://web.archive.org/web/20220408112140/http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Organic/transcription.html
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