Re:20n (YC W15) Uses Software To Engineer Microbes For Chemi...
by xkcd-sucks on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:58PM
(#9115832)
Given that "reverse-engineering" DNA is trivial compared to "reverse-engineering" small molecules or reverse-engineering software, do you have an opinion on what constitutes non-"open source" DNA?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:20n (YC W15) Uses Software To Engineer Microbes For Chemi...
by jjoonathan on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:09PM
(#9115906)
Just because Ken Dill declared victory on the protein folding problem [1] doesn't mean it's going to become trivial any time in the next few decades...
EDIT: after checking the paper, it looks like he qualified himself far better than I remembered. Maybe I was thinking of a different paper? In any case the lower-left part of the last page is a good partial list of reasons why reverse engineering DNA is not trivial.
[1] http://web.iitd.ac.in/~nkurur/2012-13/IIsem/cyl110/protfoldp...