Method Translate

synthesis/codon/codon.go:256–279

Translate will return an amino acid sequence which the given DNA will yield

(dnaSeq string)

// Translate will return an amino acid sequence which the given DNA will yield
func (table *TranslationTable) Translate(dnaSeq string) (string, error) {
	if dnaSeq == "" {
		return "", errEmptySequenceString
	}

	var aminoAcids strings.Builder
	var currentCodon strings.Builder
	translationTable := table.TranslationMap

	for _, letter := range dnaSeq {
		// add current nucleotide to currentCodon
		currentCodon.WriteRune(letter)

		// if current nucleotide is the third in a codon, translate to amino acid, write to aminoAcids, and reset currentCodon
		if currentCodon.Len() == 3 {
			aminoAcids.WriteString(translationTable[strings.ToUpper(currentCodon.String())])

			// reset codon string builder for the next codon
			currentCodon.Reset()
		}
	}

	return aminoAcids.String(), nil
}

// weightAminoAcids weights each codon in a codon table according to input string codon frequency, adding weight to
// the given NCBI base codon table