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# Description
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Calculate the Hamming Distance between two DNA strands.
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Calculate the Hamming distance between two DNA strands.
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Your body is made up of cells that contain DNA.
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Those cells regularly wear out and need replacing, which they achieve by dividing into daughter cells.
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When cells divide, their DNA replicates too.
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Sometimes during this process mistakes happen and single pieces of DNA get encoded with the incorrect information.
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If we compare two strands of DNA and count the differences between them we can see how many mistakes occurred.
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This is known as the "Hamming Distance".
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This is known as the "Hamming distance".
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We read DNA using the letters C,A,G and T.
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We read DNA using the letters C, A, G and T.
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Two strands might look like this:
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GAGCCTACTAACGGGAT
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CATCGTAATGACGGCCT
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^
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They have 7 differences, and therefore the Hamming Distance is 7.
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They have 7 differences, and therefore the Hamming distance is 7.
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The Hamming Distance is useful for lots of things in science, not just biology, so it's a nice phrase to be familiar with :)
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The Hamming distance is useful for lots of things in science, not just biology, so it's a nice phrase to be familiar with :)
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## Implementation notes
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