Abstract

AN INTERACTIVE SEQUENCE EDITOR APPLICATION IN ANDROID PLATFORM

S.Venkataramanan and Nur Afiqah Binti Mohamad Baisuni*

Abstract

Nucleic acid is an organic substance found in chromosomes of living cell that plays an important role in the storage of hereditary information and can be expressed through protein synthesis. Nucleic acid can be classified into two which is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). DNA serves as a template for the transcription of RNA to occur. RNA is then sent to a ribosome to be translated into protein. No doubt that there are many available online tools and standalone software in personal computer provides this mechanism, however it is very limited in mobile platform. Thus, SeqEditor is a proposed mobile application build in android platform that perform several function which manipulate DNA or RNA sequences based on the input by the user. Several function such as reverse, complement, reverse complement, transcription, translation, calculate total occurrences of bases, calculate the length of the sequence and provide amino acid table which visualize the properties of amino acid. The application will only show translation result for one standard protein code and reading frame. Furthermore, the application also does not provide save function. Therefore, future enhancement is focused on solving the limitation of the application.

Keywords: Nucleic acid Thus, SeqEditor, reverse, limitation of the application.