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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by jonplackett on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:18PM (#26629955)
Rather disappointingly, neither sequence includes the string 'GATTACA'
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by ImaCake on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:16AM (#26631954)
A given combination of 7 bases has a probability of occurring of 1/16,384. Since the COVID genome is about 22k bases long I guess you have pretty good chance of it appearing in there somewhere. This assumes uniformity, which of course is not true. COVID’s genome is under crazy intense selection pressure!
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by shellfishgene on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:16AM (#26632548)
The sequence GATTCA appears 4 times in the reference version of the COVID genome :) (Go to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_045512, pick "Find in this Sequence" on the right)
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by jonplackett on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:01AM (#26632823)
AWESOME! I just did a text search for it on github. Maybe it didn't pick any up that had a line break in the middle.

I'm much happier now.

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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by ImaCake on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:38PM (#26653479)
Yep, the usual coding tools aren't ideal for bioinformatics. We have our own set of tools that work well with the various "standard" formats for sequence data.
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by calebm on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:38PM (#26636829)
That would have been a killer easter egg (possibly literally).
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by joe45643234 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:01AM (#26634068)
Whats special about this string?
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by Duber on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:07AM (#26634746)
It´s the title of a cult film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by jonplackett on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:21AM (#26659013)
Very clever title. It was only much later I understood what it meant.
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