Parity Code And DNA

jnana writes "There's an interesting article in Nature about error-correcting parity code in DNA. It seems that there are enzymes that check for even-parity nucleotides (according to a 0 and 1 assignment scheme in the article) and recognize odd-parity nucleotides as errors. The authors argue that this parity scheme is the reason that adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine became the building blocks of nucleotides instead of other types of purines and pyrimidines that must have coexisted with them."

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Not only does God play dice

[spudwiser]

but he uses a d2, apparently

In other news... (satire)

[Ogerman]

Several bio-tech and software companies, the names of whom are undisclosed, today filed a joint patent infringement lawsuit against Universe Creator, Inc. [GOD, 12777.12, +65-1/8] for allegedly violating a patent on the use of parity checking algorithms in DNA genetic sequencing. "We don't see any evidence of prior art.." a legal representative commented, "Much like Corn(tm)--we invented that too. That stuff the Native Americans used to grow was some other crop they called 'maize.' We've been gyped for all these years." If they win the lawsuit, the parties involved will release an army of Red Robots to extract royalty fees from all Hu-mans.

In the meantime, I'm still searching my newly aquired Gene Map for a copy of DeCSS...

Re:In the Matrix... 101010

[Scrameustache]

Perhaps we are all running in some ultimate program...

Well DUH, we're here to find the Question to the ultimate Awnser!

42!