Re: [FWP] DNA.pm

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton <elaine@chaos.wustl.edu>]

Steve Lane [sml@zfx.com] quoth:
*> 
*>>     CCAA CCAA AAGT CAGT TCCT CGCT ATGT AACA CACA TCTT GGCT TTGT AACA GTGT
*>
*>these would better be arranged in groups of three, as three
*>bases make a codon, which codes for one amino acid.

Actually, it's an artificial oligonucleotide. DNA-Based or genomic 
steganography isn't new and, in fact, a 17 year-old girl was awarded 
$100,000 USD last year for a research paper on just this topic.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34983,00.html
http://www.sciserv.org/sts/entrybk.pdf

and the full paper is featured in the current issue of Cryptographia which
can be had for $3 
http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/resource/pubs/cryptolo/

A very interesting paper if you are into this sort of thing.

Schwern, I'd say you were a sick man, but you are in good company :)

e.

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