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Jess:
Question is WHICH side gets WHICH atoms- and if I
remember correctly you need to expand the other pair to extrapolate what
atom
is missing for there to *ideally* be a third bond there as well. Gas code:
Gas because only O and N (with intermediary H) appear to be involved, Code
because it is this setup that determines the order of the items on the x,y,z
axes of the codon-to-amino-acid cube, and thus the polarities which yield
placement determination for size, shape, solubility, (and charge) of the
amino acid side chains, quite unexpectedly. Remember I was just fiddling
around. Serendipity. On and off over the last 15 years or so I've been
trying
to figure out WHY this should be. Don't know. Maybe you can tell me.
Derek:
This does sound as if it might be interesting from a bioinformatical point
of view, but I still don't fully understand what you are proposing. Some
points that need clarifiying -
>Question is WHICH side gets WHICH atoms
in an A-T pair, it's 2 Ns on the A and O and N on the T
in a C-G pair, it's O,N,N on the C and N,N,O on the G
I also don't understand what you mean by:
>you need to expand the other pair to extrapolate what atom
>is missing for there to *ideally* be a third bond there as well
'expand' the AT pair? What does expand mean here?
I also can't make the link:
>it is this setup that determines the order of the items on the x,y,z
>axes of the codon-to-amino-acid cube,
I hope I might be able to see this once I can see what your 'setup' is.
Please do try to explain this further as people in the bioinformatics
community are interested in this sort of thing.
For the moment I just can't see how you get from defining the atoms involved
in the hydrogen bonding to a rearrangement of the codon-amino acid cube.
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