Re: SARS: sequence deciphered update

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 17:46:16 MDT

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    On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 08:16:14AM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
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    > Looks like it is an ~30,000 base genome largely unrelated to
    > known coronaviruses.

    I couldn't resist doing a rendering of it,
    http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/bilder/sars.jpg
    I call it "Behold the enemy".

    Each pair of bases corresponds to a certain move in 3D. Pretty, and can
    be used to show some of the AT/GC ratios and other quirks, but in the
    end this was mostly done to because 1) good data needs to be turned into
    pictures, and 2) the best way of spite something mindless is to turn it
    into art. 

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