PatrickMcSweeny's solution to RNA Transcription on the JavaScript track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

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This exercise has changed since this solution was written.

Given a DNA strand, return its RNA complement (per RNA transcription).

Both DNA and RNA strands are a sequence of nucleotides.

The four nucleotides found in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T).

The four nucleotides found in RNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and uracil (U).

Given a DNA strand, its transcribed RNA strand is formed by replacing each nucleotide with its complement:

G -> C
C -> G
T -> A
A -> U

Setup

Go through the setup instructions for JavaScript to install the necessary dependencies:

http://exercism.io/languages/javascript/installation

Running the test suite

The provided test suite uses Jasmine. You can install it by opening a terminal window and running the following command:

npm install -g jasmine

Run the test suite from the exercise directory with:

jasmine rna-transcription.spec.js

In many test suites all but the first test have been marked "pending". Once you get a test passing, activate the next one by changing xit to it.

Source

Rosalind http://rosalind.info/problems/rna

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

rna-transcription.spec.js

var DnaTranscriber = require('./rna-transcription');
var dnaTranscriber = new DnaTranscriber();

describe('toRna()', function () {
  it('transcribes cytosine to guanine', function () {
    expect(dnaTranscriber.toRna('C')).toEqual('G');
  });

  xit('transcribes guanine to cytosine', function () {
    expect(dnaTranscriber.toRna('G')).toEqual('C');
  });

  xit('transcribes adenine to uracil', function () {
    expect(dnaTranscriber.toRna('A')).toEqual('U');
  });

  xit('transcribes thymine to adenine', function () {
    expect(dnaTranscriber.toRna('T')).toEqual('A');
  });

  xit('transcribes all dna nucleotides to their rna complements', function () {
    expect(dnaTranscriber.toRna('ACGTGGTCTTAA'))
      .toEqual('UGCACCAGAAUU');
  });

  xit('correctly handles completely invalid input', function () {
    expect(function () { dnaTranscriber.toRna('XXX'); }).toThrow(
      new Error('Invalid input')
    );
  });

  xit('correctly handles partially invalid input', function () {
    expect(function () { dnaTranscriber.toRna('ACGTXXXCTTAA'); }).toThrow(
      new Error('Invalid input')
    );
  });
});

var DnaTranscriber = function () {
}

const rna = {
  G: 'C',
  C: 'G',
  T: 'A',
  A: 'U'
}

DnaTranscriber.prototype.toRna = function (dna) {
  return dna.split('').map(function (x) {
    if(x in rna){
      return rna[x]
    }else{
      throw new Error('Invalid input')
    }
  }).join('')
}

module.exports = DnaTranscriber;

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