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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Life Gattaca

Posted by Charles Mudede on Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM

1 ggcacgtgac ggtcgggccg cctccgcctc tctctttact gcggcgcggg gcaagatcat
61 ggaagggaag tggttgctgt gtatgttact ggtgcttgga actgctattg ttgaggctca
121 tgatggacat gatgatgatg tgattgatat tgaggatgac cttgacgatg tcattgaaga
181 ggtagaagac tcaaaaccag ataccactgc tcctccttca tctcccaagg ttacttacaa
241 agctccagtt ccaacagggg aagtatattt tgctgattct tttgacagag gaactctgtc
301 agggtggatt ttatccaaag ccaagaaaga cgataccgat gatgaaattg ccaaatatga
361 tggaaagtgg gaggtagagg aaatgaagga gtcaaagctt ccaggtgata aaggacttgt
421 gttgatgtct cgggccaagc atcatgccat ctctgctaaa ctgaacaagc ccttcctgtt
481 tgacaccaag cctctcattg ttcagtatga ggttaatttc caaaatggaa tagaatgtgg
541 tggtgcctat gtgaaactgc tttctaaaac accagaactc aacctggatc agttccatga
601 caagacccct tatacgatta tgtttggtcc agataaatgt ggagaggact ataaactgca
661 cttcatcttc cgacacaaaa accccaaaac gggtatctat gaagaaaaac atgctaagag
721 gccagatgca gatctgaaga cctattttac tgataagaaa acacatcttt acacactaat
781 cttgaatcca gataatagtt ttgaaatact ggttgaccaa tctgtggtga atagtggaaa
841 tctgctcaat gacatgactc ctcctgtaaa tccttcacgt gaaattgagg acccagaaga
901 ccggaagccc gaggattggg atgaaagacc aaaaatccca gatccagaag ctgtcaagcc
961 agatgactgg gatgaagatg cccctgctaa gattccagat gaagaggcca caaaacccga

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Not gonna lie, I was kinda disappointed when I realized that Mudede had just posted genetic coding instead of random nonsense like I had originally assumed. Sure, gene puzzles are interesting and all, but it would've been awesome to wonder if Charles has finally completely lost his mind.

Posted by Zach Annon on May 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM

He actually lost his mind years ago. The surprising thing is that, once in a blue moon, he's actually somewhat coherent.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on May 16, 2009 at 10:04 AM

Charles,

If you broke blast, there will be no forgiveness!

Posted by Jonathan Golob

on May 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Homo sapiens calnexin (CANX), transcript variant 2, mRNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calnexin

Talking of seuqences:

http://helix.mcmaster.ca/721/outline2/no…

Posted by Andrew_Taylor on May 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM

Try this one:
ACATCAAAGCTCTGCAGAAAGAACTCGAGCAATTTG
CCAAGCTCCTGAAGCAGAAGAGGATCACCCTGGG
ATATACACAGGCCGATGTGGGGCTCACCCTGGGGG
TTCTATTTGGGAAGGTATTCAGCCAAACGACCATC
TGCCGCTTTGAGGCTCTGCAGCTTAGCTTCAAGAA
CATGTGTAAGCTGCGGCCCTTGCTGCAGAAGTGGG
TGGAGGAAGCTGACAACAATGAAAATCTTCAGGAGA
TATGCAAAGCAGAAACCCTCGTGCAGGCCCGAAA

Posted by Jonathan Golob

on May 16, 2009 at 10:12 AM

homeobox! (homobox?)

From my youth:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/pdf_extrac…

Posted by Andrew_Taylor on May 16, 2009 at 10:32 AM

Homo sapiens POU class 5 homeobox 1 (POU5F1), transcript variant 2, mRNA (or variant 1)

Posted by vida on May 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM

@2, I find that he's far more coherent than most people give him credit for, but he's usually so far into the abstract that it's hard to tell.

Posted by Zach Annon on May 16, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Is this the gene for pretentiousness?

Posted by demo kid

on May 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM

ARDGRAASASLFTAARGKIMEGKWLLCMLLVLGTAIVEAHDGHDDDVIDIEDDLDDVIEEVEDSKPDTTAPPSSPKVTYKAPVPTGEVYFADSFDRGTLSGWILSKAKKDDTDDEIAKYDGKWEVEEMKESKLPGDKGLVLMSRAKHHAISAKLNKPFLFDTKPLIVQYEVNFQNGIECGGAYVKLLSKTPELNLDQFHDKTPYTIMFGPDKCGEDYKLHFIFRHKNPKTGIYEEKHAKRPDADLKTYFTDKKTHLYTLILNPDNSFEILVDQSVVNSGNLLNDMTPPVNPSREIEDPEDRKPEDWDERPKIPDPEAVKPDDWDEDAPAKIPDEEATKP

Posted by tal on May 16, 2009 at 3:23 PM

01001101010101010100100000100000010001000100100101001011

Posted by 01001101010101010100100000100000010001000100100101001011 on May 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM

Vachement dit.

Posted by PC on May 16, 2009 at 4:39 PM

OK, I work in a genetics lab and I'm totally missing the joke. Is it art? Is it post-modern?

Posted by Chas on May 16, 2009 at 6:10 PM

Charles must have put the word "Gattaca" in a search engine (maybe the new Wolfram Alpha?) and stumbled into BLAST search and thought it was nifty enough to post, thereby triggering a mild geek-out.

The sequence of letters g-a-t-t-a-c-a is not anywhere in the longer DNA sequence he posted (after spaces, base numbers, etc. are stripped out). Oh well. Not every possible combination of g, a, t, and c means something in terms of the genetic code.

Posted by rob!

on May 16, 2009 at 9:15 PM

CARLES NO IS PRETENT, DOING SOME PRETENT-OUS TYPE THINGS. CARLES MAY ER MAY NA BE WORTHY OF 'LECKTROSHOCK BUT HE IS MAD NERD-SPEC RAW.

KEEP TRUCKIN KARLES, PSYCHE!

Posted by LaRiiiiM0RrrHAwtiiii696969

on May 16, 2009 at 9:31 PM

LOL @9 good one bro!

Posted by hipsterjennyfromtheblokk on May 17, 2009 at 2:04 AM

Gattaca was a great movie. It has a cool song at the end, instrumental and moody. The voices that play over the loudspeaker at the training station are in Esperanto.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on May 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM