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To: dark_lord
Now that is pretty cool, I followed your link, very fascinating.

It would be an excellent way for Genetics companies to protect their intellectual property.

You hide your license or whatever within the DNA sequences themselves, then if a competing company comes out with a similar genetic product, you would be able to tell if it was reverse engineered from your own product and therefore you would have a very tight case to take to court.

It is a great concept, but what was your point exactly?

That the Great ID'r in the sky has left his mark in the DNA sequence somewhere?

Well, seek and perhaps ye shall find and be the saviour of ID'rs everywhere.

You might even win a nobel prize.

Now, the question is, how do you decrypt the encyption that you believe is there, and where will it be in the genetic sequences?

Also the problem is that if indeed that sequence is in there, with the billions of sequences, you are going to be able to come up with just about anything, so you are going to have to refine your search, how will you refine your search?

You will try to go down to the simplest sequences, this is where evolution kicks in.

So where in the genetic sequences are the oldest? therefore the most likely place to find this imprint that you are looking for, I would go to the simplest lifeforms that are also the oldest lifeforms, most likely the sequence you are looking for, if it exists, will be there, and the easiest to find there.

That is where evolution would tell me to go to find such a sequence if it exists.
2,145 posted on 08/09/2003 10:09:17 PM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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To: Aric2000; dark_lord
It occurs to me that if we cannot find the "comments" cond in DNA, with all of it sitting in front of us, we would have difficulty finding a message in SETI.
2,287 posted on 08/10/2003 8:36:29 AM PDT by js1138
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