3 ms·

Rather disappointingly, neither sequence includes the string 'GATTACA'

• ImaCake 6y ago
  A given combination of 7 bases has a probability of occurring of 1/16,384. Since the COVID genome is about 22k bases long I guess you have pretty good chance of it appearing in there somewhere. This assumes uniformity, which of course is not true. COVID’s genome is under crazy intense selection pressure!
  • shellfishgene 6y ago
    The sequence GATTCA appears 4 times in the reference version of the COVID genome :) (Go to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_045512 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_045512, pick "Find in this Sequence" on the right)
    • jonplackett 6y ago
      AWESOME! I just did a text search for it on github. Maybe it didn't pick any up that had a line break in the middle. I'm much happier now.
      • ImaCake 6y ago
        Yep, the usual coding tools aren't ideal for bioinformatics. We have our own set of tools that work well with the various "standard" formats for sequence data.
• joe45643234 6y ago
  Whats special about this string?
  • Duber 6y ago
    It´s the title of a cult film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
    • jonplackett 6y ago
      Very clever title. It was only much later I understood what it meant.
• calebm 6y ago
  That would have been a killer easter egg (possibly literally).