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2002 07 30 Dienstag dyree(e) in Helsinki
| Watching the spin unfold in the Middelhoff ouster, how fine the line is between unmitigated sacking and self-propelled departure to even greater things. With every report i see or read, the general impression flipflops back and forth between the two, depending on non-surface attributes of what is reported, how, in which order, what words are used. Someone could write a thesis on this sequence. |
Notion of compactness of a genome |
 | It also has a compact genome, with roughly the same number of genes as humans but only 10 per cent of the total number of "letters", or base pairs. |
| So what is the most redundant creature alive? Is there a correlation between redundancy and some other surface trait? |
| I'd talked with Katja DeBra a while ago in the Voga about how one identifies a gene boundary in the long sequence of amino acids -- i think the answer was utilitarian: you look for places the enzymes lock onto; the other places are gene junk. |
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