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More like (2002)
by tw1010 9y ago
More like (2002)
- WhitneyLand 9y agoWhat’s wrong with it? Seems like a fantastic micro introduction to DNA for those with a computer science background. Of course it’s not perfect. I’d bet most readers like myself were enjoying it, while thinking of analogies that might be more apt or illustrative. But the power of it is how quickly it can establish a frame of reference, and if desired a jump off point for further understanding. If there are parts so fundamentally flawed or outdated as to negate the value, please, point them out. Of if you know of a better article that illuminates as much given only a 10 minute time investment, by all means please share it.
- austinprete 9y agoI took his comment to reference the fact that this was originally written in 2002 with minor additions over time, as evidenced by the “Updates” section.
- tw1010 9y agoThis was the intent of my comment.
- tantalor 9y agoYep Wayback Machine places origin in June 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020601182120/https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/ https://web.archive.org/web/20020601182120/https://ds9a.nl/a...
- sundarurfriend 9y agoYeah, it was written in 2002, and it's unclear if the content was updated after that, so I'd originally left the year unspecified in title. By the way, the author apparently did a talk on this in Aug 2017, in the presence of biologists, with some updates about new tech like CRISPR. I submitted a link to the blog post about this[1] yesterday, but it didn't gain much traction then (probably due to bad title: "DNA: The Code of Life" just sounds like some basic biology piece). [1] https://medium.com/@bert.hubert/dna-the-code-of-life-12db4a17c66d https://medium.com/@bert.hubert/dna-the-code-of-life-12db4a1...