Genetic Helper
More features are on their way such as Punnet square calculation systems for squares of arbitrary length.
The app is stable and fast on every device I test it on, simply tap on the text box for the appropriate type of genetic sequence (DNA, complimentary DNA, messenger RNA, or transmission RNA), type in the sequence, tap on the Transcribe button and it will fill in the other boxes incredibly fast.
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Reviews (11)
Wonderful tool for exploring base gene pairs. I would love to see some more visuals added, and perhaps a bit more learning materials. Either way its a solid start, good job. Thank you for this app.
I am a professor and teach genetics. I think the app can be useful for students to understand the principles of translation. One thing is that the names in the different boxes are a little confusing. I think it is possible to improve that writing something like. May be these are not prefect since English is not my native language, but is to have an idea: Coding DNA Noncoding DNA 3'-5' Transfer RNA anticodons 3'-5' Messenger RNA (codons) Amino acid chain will be built here
I soooo could have used this app a few years ago while taking all my biologies, etc in college. Thank you!
I like the app but I believe you are using the trna code instead of the mrna code to find the corresponding amino acid.
This is a great app! Looking forward to more additions in the future 😊
The app translates the amino acid sequence from tRNA instead of mRNA.
great, but sadly i'm not a high school student anymore
Haven't tried it yet
(Honestly haven't tested it yet, but it looks legit and can't see why it wouldn't work). I just wanted to say thank you. Lately my six year old has gotten pretty interested in genetics. He's a boy after my own heart. My dad majored at cal state long beach in microbiology/biology before I was born. For as long as I can remember, science has been my favorite thing to learn about and we would talk about it for hours since I could talk at all (mainly biology, cosmology, and physics). Admittedly, I haven't taken a bio class since high school. By that point all the info seemed elementary and boring stepping stones for things I already knew. It kind of didn't occur to me that most people didn't have a childhood where some of the fondest memories involved paging through anatomy books and attempting to draw the effects of a black hole using graph paper. It wasn't going to be my major (I'm the weirdo who majored in philo) and I was so bored with the classes about it that I took anthropology, oceanography, and was still yawning and wandered away from science. But my 👽Dad👽 and I never stopped discussing and dissecting theories and processes. To see my son so strangely interested in punnit squares and genetic inheritance has sparked some old feelings of wonder in me, and now we are the ones spending hours talking about biology. I have no practical use for this app but I saw it advertised and started immediately going over protein building blocks in my head. So I thought it would be great to get just to mess with mostly for the sake of nostalgia. I don't really know why I just told you all that. Maybe when I die someone can scrape together a biography based on my play store reviews. Anyways, thanks for taking the time to make this - it will greatly help anyone studying bio and genetics by doing some of the legwork while they focus on learning new concepts. And thanks for putting it on sale. Go science! 👽🤖👽
This is a great resource. I was able inject my splicing in the corrected sequence rather quickly. Ahhhhh Yes
First of all, the app has an error in showing antisence sequence not in 5'->3' order, or at least not mentioning the order at all. Then the app truncates sequences to the length divisible by three, as if UTRs are an unheard concept for the developer, good grief. All nucleotides in mRNA are not necessary divisible by 3 and containing just coding sequences, so it is a huge error to think like that. Next, what the heck does the tRNA stand for? The anticodon on anticodon loop on tRNA? But it is just a part of tRNA sequence and should not be labeled as "tRNA". And lastly, I honestly don't get the purpose of this app. As an educational app for school use it lacks explanations, as an app for lab use it lacks a ton of features. And you usually don't have to work with nucleotide sequences in your phone. It is difficult to take sequences from gene libraries etc and paste them in an android app. And there are a lot of tools, e.g. at protocol-online dot org, that are better, more varied and have more explanations that can be used for educational purposes. So go there, if you need help. Good thing I saw this app on sale and downloaded it for free to try. Do not waste money on this