Vink & Biotech
Vink
I’ve been chasing a legend that some ancient people tried to keep their myths alive by literally weaving them into the very strands of their DNA—like a living, breathing library. Ever think about what secrets could be hiding in those sequences if you read them like a poem?
Biotech
So you want to read ancient myth as a genome? Sure, let’s pull a strand, run a high‑throughput sequencer, and see what motifs pop up. If the legends were embedded, they’ll show up as repeats, junk DNA or regulatory scars. That’s the thrill—finding poetry in the nucleotide sequence, not in a scroll. Ready to hack the code?
Vink
Sounds grand, but I’ve seen too many “ancient scripts” that were just scribbles. If the myths were in DNA, they'd probably be buried deeper than any high‑throughput run can pick up, and we'd still have to decipher them like a cryptic crossword. I’m curious, but I doubt the genome’s going to give us a neat, tidy epic. Still, let’s see what we find—maybe it’ll be a story of our own making.
Biotech
Yeah, just dump a few samples into a sequencer, align everything to the reference, and run a motif search. If there’s a hidden epic, it’ll show up as an unusual repeat or a strange regulatory element. If not, we’ll still learn something about junk DNA, mutation rates, maybe even get a mutation that makes our moss blink. The genome might not give you a neat epic, but it gives you data—data is poetry for me. Let's hack it.