Sunday 28 December 2008

Software: Amino Acid Learning Aid (AALA)

I quickly wrote a little Java program that will help people learn their Amino Acids and it's called Amino Acid Learning Aid (AALA). It's pretty crude but it should be helpful. Remember, everything I write is Public Domain which means you can do what you want with it and I don't own it.

Pretty much everything you need to know about Amino Acids is layed out on this wiki page from where I also got the pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_standard_amino_acids

Knowing the Amino Acids and their codes is to biologists what knowing the Periodic Table is to chemists but far more important ;p.


And to start the program just run the executable JAR (AALA.jar) in the dist folder. Download it here:
http://www.electronicocean.com/bioinformatics/aminoacids.zip

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