In order to identify organisms with the made-from-scratch genome,
researchers at the Venter Institute put four unique DNA sequences into the
blueprint to serve as “watermarks.” For fun, the team figured out a way to
encode all the letters of the alphabet (along with necessary punctuation)
using the A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s that make up DNA.
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