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Reverse complement FASTA benchmark

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

FASTA format is used in bioinformatics to describe peptide sequences or nucleic acid sequences. One of the benchmarks at the computer languages game requires that a program parse a 'stdin' redirected input of these FASTA formated sequences and print the content of the sequence in reverse order. Each character in the ...

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Atoi() or not to Atoi()

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Update: May 13th, 2008 My solution has been accepted and placed in the interesting alternative category. A bitter-sweet victory considering my program as tested by their standards is the fastest C language entry . It is still a small honor to be recognized and to know that my entry shaved off ...

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