08/07/2015 - First Blog!

Hey there! Peace be with you, and welcome to my first official blog. I am Mehmed, and you can refer to my by my multiple names, Mehmed Fatih Canatan respectively. I am currently attending the Bioinformatics summer internship at Kayseri, Turkey at GenKoK. I am a proud Turk & Cypriot & American. I am currently 19, and that changes every year at February 17th, ever since 1996. I have had the privilege to live and travel a lot in these first year of this blessed life, and i can honestly say that real Peace does exist, and nothing is more valuable. I completed primary school up until second grade in Elazig, Turkey. Later when our family moved to Kuwait, i finished middle school, and one we moved back to Turkey & Cyprus, I finished high school at Turk Maarif Koleji (TMK) at Cyprus. I am currently a Med school student, hoping to attend my second year of education at Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, at Gaziantep, Turkey, God willing. This summer I have had he opportunity to join this internship, and I was thankfully accepted.




Today, we got around to a lot of coding, and our first team effort to make a Minecraft "Map" which is designed to hold and handle a 1000 university students in a university campus. The Minecraft-ing was really fun and an overall positive experience to be part of. We are eight people in the server, and team efforts like this really do build and strengthen team synergy and trust among st group members. After coding for most of the day, hoping on to build you dream university campus is, to say the least, a relaxer and brain-refresher.

As for the coding, which occupied most of the day, we did 3 today, and were promised would be assigned more tomorrow. We had to firstly find the percentage of respective bases on A, T, G, and C respectively in a given sequence of human-CDKN2A, this is how Canan (my partner) and i approached it by using a code involving index, and this is what we resulted in;

A :  38 C :  59 T :  21 G :  62
%A =  21.1111111111 %C =  32.7777777778 %T =  11.6666666667 %G =  34.4444444444

and the for the second part, we had to find the respective triple codons in the sequence, and the product of our efforts was;

['GGT', 'TAA', 'AAC', 'CGA', 'AAA', 'TAA', 'AAA', 'TGG', 'GCT', 'AGA', 'CAC', 'AAA', 'GGA', 'CTC', 'GGT', 'GCT', 'TGT', 'CCC', 'AGC', 'CAG', 'GCG', 'CCC', 'TCG', 'GCG', 'ACG', 'CGG', 'GCA', 'GCT', 'GGG', 'AGG', 'GGA', 'ATG', 'GGC', 'GCC', 'CGG', 'ACC', 'CAG', 'CTG', 'GGA', 'CCC', 'CCG', 'GGT', 'GCG', 'ACT', 'CCA', 'CCT', 'ACC', 'TAG', 'TCC', 'GGC', 'GCC', 'AGG', 'CCG', 'GGT', 'CGA', 'CAG', 'CTC', 'CGG', 'CAG', 'CGC']

And lastly, we had to match the different codons that code for the same amino acid together from the below data; 

{'TTT': 'F', 'TCT': 'S', 'TAT': 'Y', 'TGT': 'C',
             'TTC': 'F', 'TCC': 'S', 'TAC': 'Y', 'TGC': 'C',
             'TTA': 'L', 'TCA': 'S', 'TAA': '*', 'TGA': '*',
             'TTG': 'L', 'TCG': 'S', 'TAG': '*', 'TGG': 'W',
             'CTT': 'L', 'CCT': 'P', 'CAT': 'H', 'CGT': 'R',
             'CTC': 'L', 'CCC': 'P', 'CAC': 'H', 'CGC': 'R',
             'CTA': 'L', 'CCA': 'P', 'CAA': 'Q', 'CGA': 'R',
             'CTG': 'L', 'CCG': 'P', 'CAG': 'Q', 'CGG': 'R',
             'ATT': 'I', 'ACT': 'T', 'AAT': 'N', 'AGT': 'S',
             'ATC': 'I', 'ACC': 'T', 'AAC': 'N', 'AGC': 'S',
             'ATA': 'I', 'ACA': 'T', 'AAA': 'K', 'AGA': 'R',
             'ATG': 'M', 'ACG': 'T', 'AAG': 'K', 'AGG': 'R',
             'GTT': 'V', 'GCT': 'A', 'GAT': 'D', 'GGT': 'G',
             'GTC': 'V', 'GCC': 'A', 'GAC': 'D', 'GGC': 'G',
             'GTA': 'V', 'GCA': 'A', 'GAA': 'E', 'GGA': 'G',
             'GTG': 'V', 'GCG': 'A', 'GAG': 'E', 'GGG': 'G'

We ended up with these results; 

['G', '*', 'N', 'R', 'K', '*', 'K', 'W', 'A', 'R', 'H', 'K', 'G', 'L', 'G', 'A', 'C', 'P', 'S', 'Q', 'A', 'P', 'S', 'A', 'T', 'R', 'A', 'A', 'G', 'R', 'G', 'M', 'G', 'A', 'R', 'T', 'Q', 'L', 'G', 'P', 'P', 'G', 'A', 'T', 'P', 'P', 'T', '*', 'S', 'G', 'A', 'R', 'P', 'G', 'R', 'Q', 'L', 'R', 'Q', 'R'] .