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`xkcd` mentioned that the 29882 base pairs of the #COVID19 genome was available as a text file and it looked sort of similar to an XPM image to me, so here it is as an eight color 223x134 bitmap.
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Unfortunately there is Arecibo message embedded in the virus... It is eight colors since there are the normal four (a,g,c,t) plus four unknowns (k,r,s,y). https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/MT344963&display=text
@th encoding a virus as a bitmap that looks like That is very... snow crash,
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tom (normal) 🖲️
re: pandemic, nerdery
Unfortunately there is Arecibo message embedded in the virus... It is eight colors since there are the normal four (a,g,c,t) plus four unknowns (k,r,s,y). https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/MT344963&display=text