Project’s outlining

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This is my first post, which I wanted be short and introductory, but due to Khaled’s previous posts, which I find very useful, I think I can skip the introduction already and get to more precised topic as a last step for “drawing” the “shape” of our project in the reader’s mind.

Allow me to redefine some of the basic outlines for our project by introducing this simple Q&A form..

Q: Are you going to work on the live/real DNA ?

A: No,actually this is too far from the image we tend to draw for our project, we more aim to theoretically develop and implement techniques to be used for hiding data in DNA sequences.

Q: So how will you represent a DNA sequence if not using the real one ?

A: DNA sequences are already stored as information and available  for the research purpose you can google GenBank and other providers for such information, you can simply think of a DNA sequence as a sequence of characters (string) with base of 4 characters (A,G,C,T) representing the genetic code, the same like a sequence of binary digits (0, 1) representing a computer machine code.

Q. What shape would the project’s deliverable take ?

A. As i noted before, we are building a technique for data hiding, and that implies developing an application that must perform the three basic functions of hiding on DNA data.

Q.What are the three basic functions of data hiding that your application should provide ?

A: Any data hiding technique consists of 3 basic functions/operations those are: Import, embedding and extraction. By those functions the application will be able to import DNA from a public online database (such as GenBank) and let the user select one of the implemented techniques for embedding data into a DNA sequence and/or extracting (retrieving) information from a DNA sequence carrying hidden data.

I hope I could reveal some of the ambiguity about our project in this short post

Thanks for reading and feel free to ask

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