Reverse Complement of a DNA or RNA
A Reverse Complement converts RNA or DNA sequence into its reverse, complement counterpart. One of the major questions in Molecular Biology to solve using computational approaches is to find the reverse complement of a sequence. This is always done so to work with the reversed-complement of a given sequence if it contains an open reading frame(a region that encodes for a protein sequence during the transcription process) on the reverse strand. One could be interested to verify that the sequence is a DNA or RNA before finding its reverse complement
How to identify if the sequences of DNA and RNA
One of the major tasks in Bioinformatics in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics is to verify if the sequence is DNA or RNA. To do this we can use the set method to verify a sequence.
Reverse complement of DNA strand using Python
In this article, we will cover, how to Reverse the complement of DNA or RNA sequences in Python.
Example:
DNA strand: ATGCCGAGCA Complementary Strand: TACGGCTCGT Reverse-Complementary strand: ACGAGCCGTA