Hmmm, I googled that sequence of bases and didn't come up with anything.
You mean to say, the whole human genome isn't indexed somewhere???

Seriously, how did Honeybee identify that sequence?


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lobert" <johnlobert@...>
To: <CipherChallenge@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CipherChallenge] Re: Genome Cipher?


> Dave:
>
> Wish I could take credit for it, but I can't. It was fellow ACA member
> HONEYBEE who figured it out. The rest of this group should join us!
>
> John
> KEYSTONE
>
> Dave Smith <aca_photon@...> wrote:
> Nice work!
>
> Dave
>
> keystonejcl <johnlobert@...> wrote:
> And the answer is:
>
> It's DNA from human chromosome 11. Each segment is expanded by two
> markers with the rest repeating. Sorry, but no secret code...
>
> John
>
> --- In CipherChallenge@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Roberts"
> <t.roberts@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alexandra,
>>
>> Yes, I think it's far more likely to be a repeating 29-amino acid
> peptide, or something (I'm trying to sound knowedgable here) rather
> than a cipher.....
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Alexandra Fiona Dixon [mailto:alexandra@...]
>> Sent: Sat 16-Jun-07 3:13 AM
>> To: CipherChallenge@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [CipherChallenge] Genome Cipher?
>>
>>
>>
>> Nothing other than that it would be somewhat inelegant to just
> dump a bunch
>> of codons into the source code and leave it at that. Wishful
> thinking,
>> maybe!?
>>
>> Is the sequence long enough to actually code for a protein? Maybe
> job
>> applicants are supposed to name the protein...
>>
>> A'a
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Lobert" <johnlobert@... <mailto:johnlobert%
> 40sbcglobal.net> >
>> To: <CipherChallenge@yahoogroups.com <mailto:CipherChallenge%
> 40yahoogroups.com> >
>> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:20 AM
>> Subject: Re: [CipherChallenge] Genome Cipher?
>>
>> >I agree with you on all that. I'm just asking what leads you to
> believe
>> >that she wanted the reader to do something with the sequence in
> the source
>> >other than discovering it?
>> >
>> > John
>>
>>
>>
>>
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