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Dingo Wins The World's Most Interesting Genome Competition (smithsonianmag.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: It sounds like an argument scientists might have during a night of drinking: Which creature has the most interesting genome in the world? But the question is more than a passing musing. San Francisco biotech company Pacific Biosciences held a public competition to determine which critter should receive the honor. The winner: Sandy Maliki, an Australian desert dingo. The company will now sequence the dingo's genome to help researchers study animal domestication. Sandy beat out four other interesting finalists in the competition, receiving 41 percent of the public votes, which were cast from around the world. This is the fourth year the company has sponsored the competition. The company invites researchers to send in grant proposals explaining why the interesting plants and animals they study should be sequenced. Then a committee of scientists whittles the entries down to five finalists for the final public vote.
Maybe the dingo ate your baby?
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but this news was posted everywhere else a day or so back. Slashdot may want to upgrade those 1200-bps modems. I respect the importance that Hayes and U.S. Robotics had 30 years ago, but I don't need another "yesterday's news today" site.
"Editors" like msmash, who barely seem to understand English to begin with, are really not helping. Not that Slashies ever had much of anyone who took the title of "editor" as meaning anything other than as a point on their McDonald's application. I do not wish to disparage the noble Big Mac!
...sigh. Yes, I'll have fries with that but, you know, I'm ordering them from Reddit. Or Buzzfeed. Or Digg, if I have to, I'm not proud. I kind've want my fries now, not tomorrow.
Did IMDB handle the voting?
Freedom to fear. Freedom from thought. Freedom to kill.
I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
I have an American Dingo (discovered as native to South Carolina about 50 years ago) and she's the most interesting dog I've ever met. She is crazy intelligent but way less loyal to me than she is to herself.
American Dingo DNA branched off from domestic dogs thousands of years ago so they evolved differently and are far more primitive than modern domesticated dogs.
But, she's cool AF.
The only thing I know about Dingos is that they are notorious baby kidnappers. Never give an Australian Dingo a US Visa. We need extreme vetting. As in veterinarianing.
A dingo is a loser with horrible ratings. I have the most interesting genome, believe me. Dingos (bad) only wish they had my genome.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If the genome hasn't been sequenced yet, then how can we know if its genome is or will be interesting or not?