On Sun, 20 Nov 1994, Hal wrote:
There is an interesting crypto connection here in that the work was done by Len Adelman of USC, the "A" of RSA.
This research was reported in a recent issue of Science, but I am going by a report in Science News. What I will describe is the gist of the work, but I may have some details wrong.
[ . . . ] reasonably accurate summary elided
Then it was a matter of filtering the DNA for strands of the proper length which did not have any duplicate nodes. The SN article wasn't clear about how this was done.
It's in the Nov. 11 issue of Science, accompanied by a nice Perspectives piece that someone with a better appreciation of the math might be able to understand. Hal (or anyone else on the list who is willing to explain a little of the math to me, off the list) will get a free lesson in Molecular Biology and the polymerase chain reaction in return that should explain the physical construction of this *genetic AlGorethem* :-) C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy" \ / - Watson & Crick <cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove ( \ Finger for public key \ ) Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / )