[Tutor] finding a polymer of letters in a string

[Jerry Hill]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Hs Hs <ilhs_hs at yahoo.com> wrote:

> so I do not know what that pattern would be when I read in a string. I do
> not know if regex could solve my kind of problem too.
>

Ignore the python portion of the problem for now.

Imagine someone handed you a piece of paper with the letters
"AAATAGCAGAAATAAAAGAAAAGATTGGAACTAGGTCAG" written on it, and asked you to
circle the section that you're trying to identify.  How would you do it,
without using a computer?  How do you figure out where there was a
mutation, and then how do you discover if that location is in a polymer
region?

If you can describe that process to us, maybe we can help you turn that
into a python program.

-- 
Jerry
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