# Nucleic Acid Sequence tools

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This small library contains types and functions used for performing operations on DNA and amino acid sequences. Its most fundamental types arethe `Nucleotide` and `AminoAcid` enums, representing a single DNA nucleotide, and a single amino acid respectively. This library is general, and intended to be used by any program or library that uses DNA sequences.

It includes functions to convert between `&[Nucleotide]` to string and vice-versa, and convert to and from u8 representations of the UTF-8 characters. It includes functions to serialize and deserialize in a compact binary format, with 2 bits per nucleotide.


See [the docs](https://docs.rs/na_seq) for details on data structures and functions available.


## Utility functionality
- Sequence and nucleotide complements
- Sequence and nucleotide weight
- GC content

We may add alignment, sequence searches, and other utility features in the future.

Also includes restriction enzyme functionality basics.


This library is used by the [PlasCAD](https://github.com/David-OConnor/plascad) plasmid editor.