genetics

Writing a GUI for the BRCAPRO Cancer Gene Risk Calculation Engine

I think this is a completely unique question on Stack Overflow. First some background: I've been asked to write a new GUI on top of a calculation engine called BRCAPRO (brack-a-pro). BRCAPRO implements a Mendelian computational model based on a piece of software called BayesMendel. BRCAPRO calculation are used by doctors and surgeons...

Genetic Engineering simulation

Hi, Does anybody have any good source of software/tutorial about Genetic Engineering Simulation? Maybe open source software about gene splicing / cloning simulation ? Thanks ...

Somehow not assigning a class with Ruby

On runtime, my code often come into an undefined method error for the method mate. As far as I can figure, a Person somehow slips through the cracks sometime along the code's exucution, and manages not to have an allele assigned to it. Code (disclaimer, not the best formatted): class Allele attr_accessor :c1, :c2 def initialize(c1...

DNA sequence alignement in native Python (no biopython)

I have an interesting genetics problem that I would like to solve in native Python (nothing outside the standard library). This in order for the solution to be very easy to use on any computer, without requiring the user to install additional modules. Here it is. I received 100,000s of DNA sequences (up to 2 billion) from a 454 new gene...