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Re: Genome Cipher?

David Cookson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:36:51 GMT

The entire genome is small compared to the length the e-mails on this thread will be if everyone keeps copying the entire thread at the end of their messages.

Re: Genome Cipher?

Wolfgang Beyer — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:22:58 GMT

Hi, When bioscientists encounter a sequence, ususally the first thing they do is do a BLAST (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/) search. The sequence you

Re: Genome Cipher?

John Lobert — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:37:11 GMT

Don't know how she identified it. I'll ask her. She knew all about 23andme and someone who had registered his DNA there. As for the entire genome, I don't

Re: Genome Cipher?

Alexandra Fiona Dixon — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:50:21 GMT

Hmmm, I googled that sequence of bases and didn't come up with anything. You mean to say, the whole human genome isn't indexed somewhere??? Seriously, how did

Re: Genome Cipher?

John Lobert — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:58:41 GMT

Dave: Wish I could take credit for it, but I can't. It was fellow ACA member HONEYBEE who figured it out. The rest of this group should join us! John KEYSTONE

Re: Genome Cipher?

Dave Smith — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:10:02 GMT

Nice work! Dave keystonejcl wrote: And the answer is: It's DNA from human chromosome 11. Each segment is expanded by two markers

Re: Genome Cipher?

keystonejcl — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:01:18 GMT

And the answer is: It's DNA from human chromosome 11. Each segment is expanded by two markers with the rest repeating. Sorry, but no secret code... John ...

Re: Genome Cipher?

Tim Roberts — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:38:17 GMT

Hi Alexandra, Yes, I think it's far more likely to be a repeating 29-amino acid peptide, or something (I'm trying to sound knowedgable here) rather than a

Re: Genome Cipher?

Alexandra Fiona Dixon — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:14:16 GMT

Nothing other than that it would be somewhat inelegant to just dump a bunch of codons into the source code and leave it at that. Wishful thinking, maybe!? Is

Re: Genome Cipher?

John Lobert — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:22:16 GMT

I agree with you on all that. I'm just asking what leads you to believe that she wanted the reader to do something with the sequence in the source other than

Re: Genome Cipher?

David Cookson — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:09:35 GMT

I don't know if it helps, but 637 is 7 * 7 * 13 All the best David Cookson www.musicalsolutions.com

Re: Genome Cipher?

Alexandra Fiona Dixon — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:34:37 GMT

Oh, you're right! How did I miss that? Well, maybe it would be worthwhile to start building codons from the 2nd position. Nope, tried that. And third. ...

Re: Genome Cipher?

Tim Roberts — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:24:19 GMT

Alexandra, Oh! There are 637 letters, not 636! So surely this just about rules out a cipher made up of codons....? Tim ________________________________ From:

Re: Genome Cipher?

Tim Roberts — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:40:44 GMT

Hi Alexandra, Well, if it is indeed a cipher (has that been established?) it would seem to me that your first steps have been sensible and correct, ie 1) look