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."

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Mind the P's and Q's

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I took biochem in undergrad. When trying to remember the amino acids, we'd spell our names. I was one of two people who could write their *entire* name in amino acids.

I also took to writing sentances. "Chemistry and art. Well, that's an interesting idea. Is it new?" became a printmaking project. It probably doesn't exist though... too many mixed hydrophyllic and hydrophobic residues.