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Given that "reverse-engineering" DNA is trivial compared to "reverse-engineering" small molecules or reverse-engineering software, do you have an opinion on wha
by xkcd-sucks 12y ago
Given that "reverse-engineering" DNA is trivial compared to "reverse-engineering" small molecules or reverse-engineering software, do you have an opinion on what constitutes non-"open source" DNA?
- jjoonathan 12y agoJust because Ken Dill declared victory on the protein folding problem [1] doesn't mean it's going to become trivial any time in the next few decades... EDIT: after checking the paper, it looks like he qualified himself far better than I remembered. Maybe I was thinking of a different paper? In any case the lower-left part of the last page is a good partial list of reasons why reverse engineering DNA is not trivial. [1] http://web.iitd.ac.in/~nkurur/2012-13/IIsem/cyl110/protfoldprob50.pdf http://web.iitd.ac.in/~nkurur/2012-13/IIsem/cyl110/protfoldp...