上选修课的时候,老师讲到了合成生物学,提到了有关DNA编码的技术,于是就讲了J.Craig Venter团队把水印编码进DNA的事情。
下面是我在Google上面搜集到的资料:
Researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute recently unveiled their first self-replicating synthetic bacteria (M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0) whose DNA was ‘programmed’ base pair by base pair. To verify that they had synthesized a new organism and not assembled the DNA from another natural bacteria, scientists encoded a series of ‘watermarks’ into the genes of M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. There are four of these hidden messages: an explanation of the coding system used, a URL address for those who crack the code to go visit, a list of 46 authors and contributors, and a series of famous quotes. The presence of these watermarks verifies that M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 truly is synthetic and demonstrates the precision and power of JCVI’s new techniques in synthetic biology.
J Craig Venter研究所的研究人员最近揭开了他们的第一批自我复制的合成细菌(M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0)的细菌,其DNA被碱基对“编程”为碱基对。为了验证他们合成了一种新生物并且没有从另一种天然细菌中组装DNA,科学家们将一系列“水印”编码到了蕈状支原体JCVI-syn1.0的基因中。这些隐藏的消息中有四种:对使用的编码系统的解释,破解该代码的人员的URL地址,46位作者和贡献者的列表以及一系列著名的名言。这些水印的存在验证了M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 真正是合成的,并证明了JCVI合成生物学新技术的精确性和功能。
————摘自SingularityHub