complement_test.rb

require 'minitest/autorun'
require_relative 'complement'

class ComplementTest < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
  def test_rna_complement_of_cytosine_is_guanine
    assert_equal 'G', Complement.of_dna('C')
  end

  def test_rna_complement_of_guanine_is_cytosine
    assert_equal 'C', Complement.of_dna('G')
  end

  def test_rna_complement_of_thymine_is_adenine
    assert_equal 'A', Complement.of_dna('T')
  end

  def test_rna_complement_of_adenine_is_uracil
    assert_equal 'U', Complement.of_dna('A')
  end

  def test_rna_complement
    assert_equal 'UGCACCAGAAUU', Complement.of_dna('ACGTGGTCTTAA')
  end

  def test_dna_complement_of_cytosine_is_guanine
    assert_equal 'G', Complement.of_rna('C')
  end

  def test_dna_complement_of_guanine_is_cytosine
    assert_equal 'C', Complement.of_rna('G')
  end

  def test_dna_complement_of_uracil_is_adenine
    assert_equal 'A', Complement.of_rna('U')
  end

  def test_dna_complement_of_adenine_is_thymine
    assert_equal 'T', Complement.of_rna('A')
  end

  def test_dna_complement
    assert_equal 'ACTTGGGCTGTAC', Complement.of_rna('UGAACCCGACAUG')
  end
end

DNA_COMPLEMENT.md

Rna Transcription

Write a program that, given a DNA strand, returns its RNA complement (per RNA transcription).

Both DNA and RNA strands are a sequence of nucleotides.

The four nucleotides found in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymidine (T).

The four nucleotides found in RNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and uracil (U).

Given a DNA strand, its transcribed RNA strand is formed by replacing each nucleotide with its complement:

• G -> C
• C -> G
• T -> A
• A -> U

Source

Rosalind view source

@hybridknight a little bit of duplication

@consti playing golf again ;)

@citizen428, (old-man-rant-mode-on)
on these challenges we're trying, I hope, to share best practices on how
you should write code :)

And pick up good habits to not introduce code smells. Come on guys!!!

↓↓↓

How you would write it for real?

Here's the rewrite of @consti's version:

module Complement
  def self.method_missing(m, *a, &b)
    m =~ /of_(dna|rna)/ && a[0].tr(*{ dna: ['GCTA', 'CGAU'], rna: ['CGAU', 'GCTA'] }[$1.to_sym])
  end
end

Don't know Ruby has String#tr until seeing @const's solution. Mine just borrows it from Python.

class String
  def translate(from_str, to_str)
    IO.popen(["python", "-c", <<-CMD.gsub(/^\s{6}/,"")]) { |f| f.read.chomp }
      import string
      print '#{self}'.translate(string.maketrans('#{from_str}','#{to_str}'))
    CMD
  end
end

class Complement
  def self.of_dna(dna)
    dna.translate('GCTA','CGAU')
  end

  def self.of_rna(rna)
    rna.translate('CGAU','GCTA')
  end
end

module Complement
  DNA_RNA = ['GCTA', 'CGAU']
  RNA_DNA = DNA_RNA.reverse

  def self.of_dna(dna)
    dna.tr(*DNA_RNA)
  end

  def self.of_rna(rna)
    rna.tr(*RNA_DNA)
  end
end

class Complement
  attr_reader :sequence, :complements

  DNA_COMPLEMENTS = { 'G' => 'C',
                      'C' => 'G',
                      'T' => 'A',
                      'A' => 'U' }

  def self.of_dna(dna)
    new(sequence: dna, complements: DNA_COMPLEMENTS).perform
  end

  def self.of_rna(rna)
    new(sequence: rna, complements: DNA_COMPLEMENTS.invert).perform
  end

  def initialize(sequence: nil, complements: nil)
    @sequence = sequence.chars
    @complements = complements
  end

  def perform
    sequence.collect { |nucleotide| complements[nucleotide] }.join
  end
end

class Complement < Struct.new(:sequence, :complements)
  DNA_COMPLEMENTS = { 'G' => 'C',
                      'C' => 'G',
                      'T' => 'A',
                      'A' => 'U' }

  def self.of_dna(dna)
    new(dna, DNA_COMPLEMENTS).perform
  end

  def self.of_rna(rna)
    new(rna, DNA_COMPLEMENTS.invert).perform
  end

  def perform
    sequence.tr("#{complements.keys}", "#{complements.values}")
  end
end