Dumb Things With Bioinformatics
Posted by
timothy
on Thu Feb 07, '02 03:26 PM
from the do-we-have-to-spell-out-g-a-g dept.
from the do-we-have-to-spell-out-g-a-g dept.
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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(Score:1, Funny)No "CowboyNeal"?
(Yes I know there's no amino acid with the abbreviation 'B')
Amino Acids
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a Alanine
r Arginine
n Asparagine
d Aspartic acid
c Cysteine
q Glutamine
e Glutamic acid
g Glycine
h Histidine
i Isoleucine
l Leucine
k Lysine
m Methionine
f Phenylalanine
p Proline
s Serine
t Threonine
w Tryptophan
y Tyrosine
v Valine
Let's copyright them.
(Score:4, Funny)(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday March 04, @07:40PM)
Patent on DNA material [slashdot.org] is already there, so let's go one step further with proteins.
If I find...
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When will it
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SecureGene 1.0! Now available in fine stores everywhere!
Maybe it should be the basis of a new audio codec - it's pretty small in the first place.
I want my MPGene!
War and peace
(Score:2)(http://bruggerink.com/~zow/)
This gives a whole new meaning to the saying about an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce War and Peace. No need for the typewriters anymore.
-"Zow"
Kilter!!!
(Score:1)Right there
(Score:5, Funny)(http://www.indexdata.dk/)
Do it yourself
(Score:4, Informative)(http://homepage.mac.com/pmcarlton/iblog/index.html)
Sports
(Score:3, Funny)(http://arun.homeip.net/)
Mind the P's and Q's
(Score:3, Interesting)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.
Surprise
(Score:1)(http://www.linux-domain.com/)
And the $64,000 question is.....
(Score:3, Funny)Re:Funny that...
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