Venter is lucky with his name. It's cysteine-arginine-alanine-isoleucine-glutamate-valine-glutamate-asparagine-glutamate-arginine.
But since there are 26 letters and only 20 amino acids (actually 22, but let's ignore them), that leaves the following unaccounted for: B, J, O, U, X, Z.
BTW, if you BLAST with the following amino acid sequence, glutamate-leucine-valine-isoleucine-serine, you'll find lots of hits for ELVIS!
- Mike
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I think one of the most exciting developments in science is the writing of DNA. I just got this news alert regarding Craig Venter and his DNA writing work:
.Bernie
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