Welcome to Nucleotide Count on Exercism's Go Track.
If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out HELP.md.
Each of us inherits from our biological parents a set of chemical instructions known as DNA that influence how our bodies are constructed. All known life depends on DNA!
Note: You do not need to understand anything about nucleotides or DNA to complete this exercise.
DNA is a long chain of other chemicals and the most important are the four nucleotides, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine. A single DNA chain can contain billions of these four nucleotides and the order in which they occur is important! We call the order of these nucleotides in a bit of DNA a "DNA sequence".
We represent a DNA sequence as an ordered collection of these four nucleotides and a common way to do that is with a string of characters such as "ATTACG" for a DNA sequence of 6 nucleotides. 'A' for adenine, 'C' for cytosine, 'G' for guanine, and 'T' for thymine.
Given a string representing a DNA sequence, count how many of each nucleotide is present. If the string contains characters that aren't A, C, G, or T then it is invalid and you should signal an error.
For example:
"GATTACA" -> 'A': 3, 'C': 1, 'G': 1, 'T': 2
"INVALID" -> error
You should define a custom type 'DNA' with a function 'Counts' that outputs two values:
- a frequency count for the given DNA strand
- an error (if there are invalid nucleotides)
Which is a good type for a DNA strand ?
Which is the best Go types to represent the output values ?
Take a look at the test cases to get a hint about what could be the possible inputs.
You may be wondering about the cases_test.go file. We explain it in the
leap exercise.
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