Regular expression matching the DNA sequence of a viable life form

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I'm looking for a regular expression matching the DNA sequence of a viable life form.

I'm not very particular about the definition of "viable life form", as long as it's able to hatch out of an egg and survive for a couple of minutes, I'm fine with that.

But still, I expect something more specific than these answers Regular Expression for String representing DNA code

If you want more specific care to describe why those answers are LESS specific! — Giorgi Nakeuri, May 10 '16 at 09:08
Well, `^[CAGT]+$` matches any random DNA sequence of any length, that might result in life-forms that are not viable _at all_. — PiRK, May 10 '16 at 09:25
That is the point of my question. there must be a simple pattern common to most life-forms. — PiRK, May 10 '16 at 09:30
This is a programming site, not a biological. Go here http://biology.stackexchange.com/ — Giorgi Nakeuri, May 10 '16 at 09:31
I found some clues here, but only for proteins: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/42038/rna-to-protein-translation — PiRK, May 10 '16 at 11:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '16 at 13:55

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For Procaryota you may use "AGGAGG". That is the Shine-Dalgamo sequence essence for survival of bacteria. For Eucaryota maybe TATAAA (TATA box) helps.

answered May 17 '16 at 13:55

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Regular expression matching the DNA sequence of a viable life form

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