Talk:Bioinformatics tools

Protein to DNA code
It looks like I have come across a bit of a problem. Not too long ago, I decided to look for a less ambiguous protein to DNA translator. I came across one that used chicken codons, and I decided to translate the dinosaur protein sequences using that instead. I quickly compared them with sequences translated using human codons and thought that they were the same.

Now, I have decided to do it again, and it seems that I was wrong. After aligning the different codon results again, I found that the protein translations made using the chicken and the human codons were actually different by one base pair. I do not think this is too much of a problem, since humans and cows did seem to use the same codons and belonged to different superorders, but Brachylophosaurus and chickens differ even more. And I don't know how far removed a chicken is from T. rex. Do we have to use the ambiguous translator again? I personally don't want to, since they don't give precise results, but it seems that we might have to. Jurassic Park Treasury (talk) 09:21, June 3, 2013 (UTC)