In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery

Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by alfiedotwtf on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @04:46PM (#11956867)

> As @sixQuarks has already written, finding the minimal amount of genes when there are 175 unknown ones and you don't know anything about their dependencies and relationships seems to be pretty much impossible.

Is there any way at all at simulating the tests? I'd like to apply metaheuristics to search for which combinatorics work

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Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by smaddox on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:59PM (#11965979)

This would require a quantum chemistry simulation many orders of magnitude larger and longer than what we currently capable of simulating. Though I suppose you could in principle use heuristics to greatly reduce the conputational complexity.

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