[HN Gopher] Mysterious DNA sequences, known as 'Borgs,' recovere... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.sciencemag.org) (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]. | | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-17 23:00 UTC)