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2. Write a computer program using your favorite programming language that accepts as input a DNA sequence of any size and returns its reverse complement.
Answer:
A program in Javascript can be found in the source code of this page. The program reads the DNA sequence, transform it to lower case, discards anything that is not a valid base, computes the reverse complement, and show it in the correspondong field. To see it in action, use the form below.
Insert the original DNA sequence below:
Reverse Complement:
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