Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/15/complete-genome-of-sars-cov-2.html
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Then turn on “tracking changes” and you can see where evolution altered the hemagglutinin esterase open reading frame. (‘clippy’ in the role of Darwin)
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I think there’s a typo on line 42…
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You spotted the Z in there, too?
But the page breaks in Word are indicative of ribonuclease contamination…
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Somebody with too much free time should assign RGBs to that data and make an image.
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I’ll read this later while listening to the musical sonification of the spike protein (https://soundcloud.com/user-275864738) and playing the latest Foldit COVID19 puzzle on my computer.
14,600,000 results for a search on “Covid + jigsaw puzzles” - mostly about the boom in doing jigsaw puzzles during lockdown
29,900 results for a search on "Covid + Foldit + jigsaw puzzles
It is interesting to me that there isn’t a continuous brainstorm happening online and on TV for all citizen scientists to solve the problem of COVID19 (or maybe I just haven’t been invited to the party). This should be an all species conversation but it seems like nobody with a large megaphone actually wants to call for quorum.
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Don’t you mean Noble? /s
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it’d just be noise though, yeah? and what dimensions (width, height) would you use? and do you use the letters, or do you use something like the dna twists in threespace to select from a color plane? so many options!
though i guess in contact ellie finds the image of a circle in pi… so you never know till you try i guess.
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it’s 45 that’s completely busted
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Anybody else feel a sudden urge to watch GATTACA?
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It’s the “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” at the end that makes it deadly.
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Now that my eyes have seen the full text of this “wanted poster”, it really should be possible for my immune system get scanning, looking for this particular hooligan on my epitheleum.
It bothers me more than a little that science fiction medicine is still to this day, mostly about waving fancy salt shakers over a fallen red shirt and spouting some rubber science.
If medicine were as well covered in SF, as say, military weaponry- you better believe people today wouldnt be so eager to go to a bar with a bunch of unmasked strangers.
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I was disappointed to not find that pattern in the actual genome 
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Yeah does the genome really have padding?
Ah, indeed. My mistake for assuming Rob’s copy was the complete thing. 
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I’m going to take this opportunity to log roll for folding at home. Any of you geeky folk with spare processor cycles, please take a look at this.
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Cool! Thanks for the link!
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