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# Nucleotide Count
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Given a single stranded DNA string, compute how many times each nucleotide occurs in the string.
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Each of us inherits from our biological parents a set of chemical instructions known as DNA that influence how our bodies are constructed. All known life depends on DNA!
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The genetic language of every living thing on the planet is DNA.
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DNA is a large molecule that is built from an extremely long sequence of individual elements called nucleotides.
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4 types exist in DNA and these differ only slightly and can be represented as the following symbols: 'A' for adenine, 'C' for cytosine, 'G' for guanine, and 'T' thymine.
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> Note: You do not need to understand anything about nucleotides or DNA to complete this exercise.
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Here is an analogy:
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- twigs are to birds nests as
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- nucleotides are to DNA as
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- legos are to lego houses as
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- words are to sentences as...
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DNA is a long chain of other chemicals and the most important are the four nucleotides, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine. A single DNA chain can contain billions of these four nucleotides and the order in which they occur is important!
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We call the order of these nucleotides in a bit of DNA a "DNA sequence".
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We represent a DNA sequence as an ordered collection of these four nucleotides and a common way to do that is with a string of characters such as "ATTACG" for a DNA sequence of 6 nucleotides.
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'A' for adenine, 'C' for cytosine, 'G' for guanine, and 'T' for thymine.
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Given a string representing a DNA sequence, count how many of each nucleotide is present.
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If the string contains characters that aren't A, C, G, or T then it is invalid and you should signal an error.
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For example:
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```
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"GATTACA" -> 'A': 3, 'C': 1, 'G': 1, 'T': 2
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"INVALID" -> error
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```
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## Rust Installation
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