BCCodon

Provides codon functionality.

Superclass: NSObject
Declared In: BCCodon.h

Discussion

A codon is a composite object, consisting of three bases and a corresponding amino acid. This class provides the equivalent functionality in code form. You will typically not create these items, but rather access them via methods in BCGeneticCode.

Methods

-aminoAcidSymbolString: returns the symbol string of the amino acid encoded by the receiver. Returns "*" for stop codons.
-codedAminoAcid: returns the BCAminoAcid encoded by the reciever. Returns nil for stop codons.
-copyWithZone:: returns self to keep the codon a singleton. This may be dangerous, but i don't entirely understand memory zones.
-description: returns the tripletString
-tripletString: returns a string representing the three bases of the codon.

aminoAcidSymbolString

returns the symbol string of the amino acid encoded by the receiver. Returns "*" for stop codons.

- (NSString *) aminoAcidSymbolString;

codedAminoAcid

returns the BCAminoAcid encoded by the reciever. Returns nil for stop codons.

- (BCAminoAcid *) codedAminoAcid;

copyWithZone:

returns self to keep the codon a singleton. This may be dangerous, but i don't entirely understand memory zones.

- (id)copyWithZone:(NSZone *)zone;

description

returns the tripletString

- (NSString *) description;

tripletString

returns a string representing the three bases of the codon.

- (NSString *) tripletString;

Discussion

calls "symbolString" on each base of the codon, appending the results to generate a single string