# \[Strategy Market\] Junk Nucleotides

**URL:** https://forum.eternagame.org/t/strategy-market-junk-nucleotides/1349
**Category:** Strategy Market - Single State
**Created:** [June 24, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/strategy-market-junk-nucleotides/1349 "2012-06-24T19:54:00Z")
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### Author: ![paramodic](https://forum.eternagame.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@paramodic](https://forum.eternagame.org/u/paramodic)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/strategy-market-junk-nucleotides/1349/1 "2012-06-24T19:54:00Z")

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I’m thinking part of the reason that humans seem to do so much better than the bots is that humans tend not to make ‘junk’ nucleotide data. What I mean is that humans tend to avoid mutating unpaired bases (such as those contained in a 7-1 bulge or a 6-6 loop), where a bot would paint them and create that junk data. People even avoided mutating the unpaired bases in player projects where I asked them to mutate all bases from adenine! So, I’d like to make a strategy based off of this principal.

Reward a design for each consecutive unpaired Adenine base that is not adjacent to a paired base. (Ex: In a 6-6 loop, there would be eight such ‘rewardable’ bases) Alternatively, punish those designs which mutate non pair-adjacent unpaired bases.

I’d also like to try a second version of this principal, which rewards a fold for each non-mutated unpaired base, regardless of its adjacency to a pairing.

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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: [July 18, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/strategy-market-junk-nucleotides/1349/2 "2012-07-18T00:52:00Z")

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Dear paramodic,

Your strategy has been added to our implementation queue with task id 141. 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
