# \[Market strategy\] Boost or no boost depending on loopsize

**URL:** https://forum.eternagame.org/t/market-strategy-boost-or-no-boost-depending-on-loopsize/1189
**Category:** Strategy Market - Single State
**Created:** [February 16, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/market-strategy-boost-or-no-boost-depending-on-loopsize/1189 "2012-02-16T13:30:00Z")
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### Author: ![Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/user_avatar/forum.eternagame.org/eli_fisker/32/4453_2.png) [@Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/u/Eli_Fisker)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/market-strategy-boost-or-no-boost-depending-on-loopsize/1189/1 "2012-02-16T13:30:00Z")

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Hairpins with tetraloops and pentaloops mostly seem to be fine without boosting. (Strings 4 nts and longer) However hairpins with loops bigger than a pentaloop, some sort of boost seems to be necessary. (Strings 4 nts and longer) It appears a GC-pair at the end of a string is not enough to hold a loop of 6 nucleotides in spot, if they are all A’s. Often 1 or 2 of the nucleotides i the loop ring end up with a blue color dark enough to suggest they paired up somewhere - unwanted. I still don’t know what sort of boosting is correct here, just that some seem to be needed.

As I’m not sure which kind of boosting that is required, so I want a strategy that opens up for it in this special boosting, but not too much. I just want this situation penalized less, as I can see a potential need for boost here.

As we already have all A’s loop strategy and the boosting in bigger loops is what I’m after, I would like a strategy that says:

Give +1⁄2 if there is up to 2 different colors boosting, in loops 6 nts and longer (on strings 4 nt’s and longer.) I don’t know about position yet, so this strategy will need an addition.

This is related to the post I wrote earlier about [Boost according to lenght of hairpin](https://getsatisfaction.com/eternagame/topics/boost_according_to_length_of_hairpin).

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### Author: ![JeehyungLee](https://forum.eternagame.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@JeehyungLee](https://forum.eternagame.org/u/JeehyungLee)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/market-strategy-boost-or-no-boost-depending-on-loopsize/1189/2 "2012-02-29T15:41:00Z")

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Dear Eli,

Your strategy has been added to our implementation queue with task id 123. You can check the schedule of the implementation [here](https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CKjd8JAB&hl=en&key=tUnfBv6tknYbY28ufrQ-Y2Q&hl=en&authkey=CKjd8JAB#gid=1).

Thanks for sharing your idea!

EteRNA team