Today I was able to submit my first lab for the ETErna website. The lab was titled Sensor, lab turn-off Variant 1.  The most important part of he structure is that i was able to get the percent of adenine down to 10%, and still have the structure retain the desired shapes.

The past few days I have been watching videos and reading up on tutorials that are on the eterna website in order to gain skills for the switch labs. This is the link to the tutorial i have been using, on top of the eterna skills you will learn a lot about RNA and entropy.  It is a good way to learn more about the topic.  https://getsatisfaction.com/eternagame/topics/switch-lab-intro.  On top of all this i have been working on challenges that are a little more difficult and I am still attempting switches. Right now my current rank is 2,249. Here is an example of the switch i am currently stuck on. It is the Pincers (switch) Challenge.

Progress on Eterna

Today I worked on some more challenges on Eterna to practice loop boosting . I completed 50 puzzles and achieved level 2 Puzzle Master. My rank is 6592 and I plan to complete more challenges.Below is an example of a challenge I completed. I have not worked on switched yet and I plan to complete some challenges to get experience on switches so that I may be able to complete a real-world example.

        Today I continued working on the challenges on EteRNA and have continued to learn little key tips to strengthen the RNA strands.  I am still having a problem with the switch RNA and finding a way to have the strand work in both forms. Today I finished my 50th puzzle and completed the second round of puzzle master.  I keep attempting the labs though my problems with doing switches is making them even harder.  I will continue to practice switches and will also begin to study RNA outside of the EteRNA website.