Tool to accelerate manual biology problem solving.
Not recently updated — last update was on 2019-07-06.
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About Genetic Helper
Genetic Helper is a tools app developed by Dalton H.
How many times has Genetic Helper been downloaded?
Genetic Helper has been downloaded 31 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 6 times.
What is the rating of Genetic Helper?
Genetic Helper is rated 4.00 out of 5 stars, based on 140 ratings.
Is Genetic Helper free?
Genetic Helper costs $0.99 to download. The APK download size is 957.10 kB. The latest version available is 1.4.4. The last update was on July 6, 2019.
What are the requirements for Genetic Helper?
Genetic Helper requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2018.
Description
Transcribing and translating genetic sequences by hand is a time consuming process that many biology students spend hours doing over and over.
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I am a professor and teach genetics. I think the app can be useful for students to understand the principles of translation. One thing is that the names in the different boxes are a little confusing. I think it is possible to improve that writing something like. Maybe these are not prefect since English is not my native language, but is to have an idea: Coding DNA Noncoding DNA 3'-5' Transfer RNA anticodons 3'-5' Messenger RNA (codons) Amino acid chain will be built here
★★★★☆Jeffrey Hoffman· Nov 19, 2019
I like the app, but I believe you are using the trna code instead of the mrna code to find the corresponding amino acid.
★★★★★Neutron· Jan 9, 2021
Great, but sadly I'm not a high school student anymore
★☆☆☆☆Kseniya G.· Oct 12, 2018
First of all, the app has an error in showing antiscience sequence not in 5'->3' order, or at least not mentioning the order at all. Then the app truncates sequences to the length divisible by three, as if UTRs are an unheard concept for the developer, good grief. All nucleotides in mRNA are not necessary divisible by 3 and containing just coding sequences, so it is a huge error to think like that. Next, what the heck does the tRNA stand for? The anticodon on anticodon loop on tRNA? But it is just a part of tRNA sequence and should not be labeled as "tRNA". And lastly, I honestly don't get the purpose of this app. As an educational app for school use it lacks explanations, as an app for lab use it lacks a ton of features. And you usually don't have to work with nucleotide sequences in your phone. It is difficult to take sequences from gene libraries etc. and paste them in an android app. And there are a lot of tools, e.g. at protocol-online dot org, that are better, more varied and have more explanations that can be used for educational purposes. So go there, if you need help. Good thing I saw this app on sale and downloaded it for free to try. Do not waste money on this
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