Any DNA project of reasonable size invariably turns into horribly unstructured spaghetti code. I'll be waiting for a higher-level language.
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Anonymous2010-05-21 13:55
Venter had already applied for patents on more than 300 genes, raising concerns that the company might claim intellectual rights to the building blocks of life. Fuck you!
>>4 the company might claim intellectual rights to the building blocks of life.
Monsanto's been doing that for years, you'd know if you went out of your basement once in a while.
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Anonymous2010-05-21 14:23
>>5
By ``went out of your basement once in a while'' do you mean ``were a farmer''?
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Anonymous2010-05-21 15:33
The human genome is about 3 gigabases long, which boils down to 750 megabytes. Depressingly enough, this is only 2.8 Mozilla browsers.
That's preposterous. They only tell you they ``developed'' a way to encode the English alphabet and punctuation using four different symbols. I can think of at least ten different useful implementations.
And an obscene amount of impractical and ridiculous implementations.
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Not really, there are patterns in natural language that are easy to spot, regardless of encoding. At most it's a 16-bit encoding, much less if I remember rightly that certain combinations of ACGT aren't possible.
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Anonymous2010-05-21 17:56
I, for one, welcome our new demise by the grey goo.
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Anonymous2010-05-21 18:10
Is it a perfect lifeform? ie no diseases, no errors, no mutations? Sounds like it's going to be pretty boring when all life on earth is dissolved into mindless self-replicating proteins.
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Anonymous2010-05-21 18:14
>>14
Well I have a way to encode the English alphabet and punctuation using two different symbols.
Recompiling the kernel is not exactly "creating synthetic life."
Still cool though, and one day it might even be quicker just to create a synthetic E.coli in this manner containing the genes you want, rather than having to construct plasmids and transform them.