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)


 * This is my opinion. I think the bird code is our best shot for filling the caps. T. rex is clother related to birds than ANY other extant group. The common ancestor or chicken and Brachylophosaurus lived approximately 230 million years ago (first saurischian dinosaur). That is much later than its common ancestor with crocs or turtles.


 * However, I'm sure it wouldn't really matter for the cloning process. MismeretMonk (talk) 15:50, June 3, 2013 (UTC)