[HN Gopher] Mysterious DNA sequences, known as 'Borgs,' recovere...
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       Mysterious DNA sequences, known as 'Borgs,' recovered from
       California mud
        
       Author : walterbell
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2021-07-17 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sciencemag.org)
        
       | farresito wrote:
       | Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27816108
        
       | woleium wrote:
       | An entertaining read, but I have no doubt that there will be a
       | mundane explaination eventually.
        
       | bno1 wrote:
       | What if this is just an artifact of the DNA sequence assembly.
       | They soil they collect probably contains DNA from many organisms.
       | The sequence assembly algorithms are likely looking for patterns
       | in noise [1].
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       | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
        
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