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Dumb Things With Bioinformatics
PrvtBurrito writes: "About 3% of the human genome is "coded" as genes. The proteins those genes encode can be represented as long sequences of amino acids, a twenty letter alphabet. In an attempt to perhaps prove that nothing is sacred, someone has cataloged all of the english words found in known annotated protein sequences from many organisms. It looks like after cataloging over 37,000,000 characters, the longest word is chapstick and the most common word is kilter."
No "CowboyNeal"?
(Yes I know there's no amino acid with the abbreviation 'B')
Like the aussies who copyrighted ringing tones, someone should copyright those sequences.
Patent on DNA material is already there, so let's go one step further with proteins.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
near the beginning of chromosome 1, in plain view for anyone to read: Frst Post
In Murphy We Turst
The only sport I found in the word list was "CRICKET". Looks like God intended His subjects to play only cricket!
Where does ALL YOU BASE occur?