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# RNA Transcription
Welcome to RNA Transcription on Exercism's Elixir Track.
If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
## Introduction
You work for a bioengineering company that specializes in developing therapeutic solutions.
Your team has just been given a new project to develop a targeted therapy for a rare type of cancer.
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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.
That can cause all sorts of havoc.
But if you can create a very specific molecule (called a micro-RNA), it can prevent the protein from being produced.
This technique is called [RNA Interference][rnai].
[rnai]: https://admin.acceleratingscience.com/ask-a-scientist/what-is-rnai/
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## Instructions
Your task is determine the RNA complement of a given DNA sequence.
Both DNA and RNA strands are a sequence of nucleotides.
The four nucleotides found in DNA are adenine (**A**), cytosine (**C**), guanine (**G**) and thymine (**T**).
The four nucleotides found in RNA are adenine (**A**), cytosine (**C**), guanine (**G**) and uracil (**U**).
Given a DNA strand, its transcribed RNA strand is formed by replacing each nucleotide with its complement:
- `G` -> `C`
- `C` -> `G`
- `T` -> `A`
- `A` -> `U`
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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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## Source
### Created by
- @rubysolo
### Contributed to by
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### Based on
Hyperphysics - https://web.archive.org/web/20220408112140/http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Organic/transcription.html