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all of computer science was created by an undocumented spaghetti code that evolved over a few hundred million years: DNA is 700 MB or so of uncompressed undocumented base pairs.

We seem to be doing all right.

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Yeah, and because the code is completely undocumented and obfuscated it's taking us biologists a few hundred thousand man-years to figure out what the hell it means. The only time spaghetti is a good thing is when it's covered in sauce.

It'd be somewhat weird to stumble across comments in that code.

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I quite often see words (or nearly-words) in protein sequences.

The best I've seen are (when reading DNA translated in all frames):

EVQLVE

LAMARCK

ELVISISGAY

SALTYSATAN

Is SALTYSATAN a metal band or a sex act?

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/

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