Timeline for Expanding the SETI initiative to seek intelligent data within DNA sequences?
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| Jun 23, 2014 at 14:54 | comment | added | Resonating | DNA in living creatures is just not a very good storage method. Critters can go extinct or mutate your 'message'. Theoretically you could plant a sequence of non-coding DNA in a large number of completely unrelated organisms, and that consensus sequence would last a little while. It would decay pretty quickly without selective pressure, though. In fact, you could look for these right now. Go BLAST species that are unrelated looking for highly-conserved noncoding sequences. Worst case scenario you discover a new method of gene regulation or something. | |
| Mar 28, 2013 at 3:42 | comment | added | Alex Stone | Very good point. What originally inspired the question was that the "data in DNA" encoding linked in the question uses very short 96 bit "packets", preceded by a 19 bit addressing sequence. While the payload can vary, the presence of the address within each packet gives hope of detection. As far as I understand, this is how genes are detected - by their promoter/terminator sites. | |
| Mar 28, 2013 at 2:59 | history | edited | Bitwise | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2013 at 20:45 | history | answered | Bitwise | CC BY-SA 3.0 |