The Bio Engineer's Job On Base Destruction for Dummies By Khragon
This is as simple an explanation as I can give on how the BE does their part of the sequence in destroying a Player Base. You do not need to be a MBA in DNA Professional BEng. to know what to do, its very simple, but there is 4 things you DO NEED TO KNOW.
A=T, T=A, C=G and G=C
If you are a BE and ever plan to help destroy a base, have this written down as this is the only real required knowledge to complete the BE portion of a base destruction. Now down to the "what do I do?". You have a total of 23 matches you need to make.
When you hack the Override Terminal a pop up window will display. Something like:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 0
Sampled Chain: ACA
C
T
A
A
C
G
C
T
etc etc for a total of 23 in the list
The main idea is that you are trying to match the first letter in the "Sampled Chain" with its opposite like I posted at the top in red letters...the opposite of A is T and the opposite of T is A. The opposite of C is G and the opposite of G is C. Looking at the above Sampled Chain: ACA you have to choose a letter from the provided list of 23 options that matches the first letter...in this case it would be T, because T is the opposite of A. You can always ignore everything after the first letter as the remaining letters are ilrelevent
C
T - Choose
A
A
C
G
C
T
etc etc
It will then tell you that you have matched 1 Nucleotide, then it resets the window to show the 1 match you made of the 23 total you need to make and the sampled chain will change, something like:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 1
Sampled Chain: TGCCA
C
TA
A
A
C
G
C
etc etc
Sampled Chain: TGCCA this time requires to you match the T....remember you are only matching the first letter of the sampled chain, ignore the other letters. Opposite of T is A, so in the list you would choose A. You can choose any "A" in the list of 23 letters, it would not matter because eventually you will have to match all of them anyways.
C
TA
A - Choose
A
C
G
C
Eventually you will come to a point where the opposite letter you have to choose from the list to match the Sampled Chains first letter will not be present. You will only have double letters in the list and maybe a few single letters that are not the one you want. Something like:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 15
Sampled Chain: ACGGT
CG
TA
AT
AT
CG
GC
CG
A
G
etc etc
In this example the Sampled Chain:ACGGT you wanted a single T to match to the letter A, but there is none left in the list. This basically means no matter what you choose this time, it will not be correct. So choose any of the double letters you see which will result in the reply "You have matched 0 nucleotides", then the window will reset again with a new Sampled Chain.
Lets assume you have matched 15 of the 23 so far, this means you have to match 8 more from the list. The idea is to keep reseting the window and obtaining a new "Sampled Chain" with the first letter that matches the remaining 8 single letters you need to match up. For example, assume you still have the letters G,G,G,G,C,C,C,T left to match from your list. Meaning you need Sampled Chains that start with C,C,C,C,G,G,A in order to complete your final 8 matches. Anytime you get a sampled chain that you cannot choose from your remaining 8, just choose any from the list so a new window comes up with a new sample chain and keep doing that until you get chains that you can match up to.
Advanced
If the page 1 guide was of help and you now understand the basic idea on how to match the Sample Chains, this is an addendum to that as I did not want to include this part as it may confuse people. I figure once people understand the basic ideas on how it works off page 1, this part should make sense.
When matching the 23 letters from the list to the first letter in the Sampled Chain, you do not have to match the first letter in the sampled chain, you can match any of the letters. In other words, any letter in the list of 23, as long as the opposite is in the sampled chain you can match, regardless of whether its the first letter in the sampled chain or the last letter. For example, lets assume you have 4 letters left to match in the list and all 4 are G...something like:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 0
Sampled Chain: ACA
CG
TA
AT
AT
G
G
CG
G
TA
G
etc etc....
In this instance, you do not have to wait for a C to be the first letter in the sampled chain, as long as you have a C anywhere in the sampled chain you can match it to one of the 4 remaining G's. In the above Sampled Chain: ACA, notice C is not the first letter of the chain, A is. Doesnt matter, you can still match it to one of the G's. So to match the C to one of the 4 remaining G's, simply line it up by choosing the letter above any G even though the first A in the sample chain wont match it. Like this:
Sampled Chain:ACA
CG
TA
AT
AT - Choose here because the letter C in the sampled chain is the second letter, therefore by choosing here
G - this letter G will match the C in the sampled chain.
CG
G
TA
G
etc etc....
Breaking this down, by choosing the AT, you are pairing AT with the First A in the sampled chain which has no benefit but you are pairing the G with the C in the sampled chain, and then the CG is being paired with the last A in the sampled chain which has no benefit. Even though the AT and CG are already matched pairs, doesnt matter you were simply choosing the AT so that the sampled chains C would match the G, AT and CG are illrelevent.
This leads to the possibilty of matching multiple pairs at one time as well. You can easily often get 2 and 3 pair matches each time if the letters in the list of 23 are lined up to match the 3 letters in your Sampled Chain as was briefly discussed on page 1. For example:
DNA Sequence Processing...
Complete the missing Pairs:AT, TA, GC, CG
Matched Pairs: 0
Sampled Chain: CGT
C
T
A
A
G
G
C
A
T
T
In this example to match the C in the sampled chain, you have 2 choices as there are 2 G's to choose to match the C to. However 1 G will give you only 1 match, the other G if you chose it gives you 3 matches, so obviously both are the right choice as you are guaranteed to at least match the C, but one choice is better because you will get 3 matches, here it is:
Sampled Chain: CGT
C
T
A
A
G
G - First Match: Choose here because the Sampled chains C matches this G
C - Second Match: If you chose the above G, the sampled chains second letter G will match this C too!
A - Third Match: The sampled chains third letter T will match this A....Triple match with 1 choice!!
T
T
You can match ANY of the 3 sampled chains letters, and or any combination of the letter, you can match the first and third in one choice, second and third, first and second, etc.
