| Date: | December 10, 2004 / year-entry #417 |
| Tags: | non-computer |
| Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041210-00/?p=37053 |
| Comments: | 11 |
| Summary: | The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium announced that it has completed the sequencing of chicken DNA. I repeat: There is an organization called "The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium". (For some reason I want to think these people get together and decide, "Okay, Ginger goes first, then Bunty, then Babs...") |
The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium announced that it has completed the sequencing of chicken DNA. I repeat: There is an organization called "The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium". (For some reason I want to think these people get together and decide, "Okay, Ginger goes first, then Bunty, then Babs...") |
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That’s rich. Does this mean they’ll begin the sequencing of Schoolyard Bully DNA?
Thanks for the Drag and Drop articles too.
That’s too funny. The first thing I thought when I saw the title of this entry was that someone had gotten together to solve the multithreaded chicken issue:
http://pluralsight.com/blogs/mike/archive/2004/05/25/415.aspx
Mike, that multithreaded chicken joke is great.
The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium also announced that their recent discoveries were the result from earlier efforts of putting all of their ducks in a row.
I wonder if they were able to isolate the "tastes like" chromosome?
Andy in Austin:
They have already, sort of. Try a "Not Chicken(TM)" which is based on soy instead of chicken, but it tastes quite like chicken (if I remember correctly how chicken tastes like, that is :)). For example see the product "Original Soy Filets" on this page http://www.sanitarium.com.au/products/meals/soy-healthy.html
I’ve actually heard it referred to (on Slashdot and several news articles) the International Chicken *Genome* Sequencing Consortium, which makes sense and unforunately is much less funny. :-)
On the other hand, I’ve also heard it the way you mention it.
It’s not a real organization–just a collective name for the people who are authors on the paper. Since there are 175 of us that would be a pretty enormous author list (the full list is at the end of the paper).
But I don’t want to sequence chickens! I want to sequence ducks! Once I get all my ducks in a row I can…
Vorn
And how would you respond to the IERS (International Earth Rotation Service) ?
Everybody needs a new Earth once in a while. :)
Vorn