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Replies: 19Last Post July 1, 2008 5:37pm by shadowpool
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Quote: from Event Horizon at 7:37 pm on June 26, 2008

i knew he was missing a zero.

you want to calculate the possible combinations of the human genome on your home computer?


On my laptop.  

I think I might give up.  I just wanted an idea of the number of possibilities.  Now that I know how many digits the number has, calculating it isn't necessary.  

Except I then I will have wasted 15 CPU hours calculating 4^187500000. But for all I know, it could take months or years.  

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well now you know how many. the only problem is that our genome is specific in many places, so that the number of possible combinations will decrease as certain spots are locked in place.

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Don't trick yourself into thinking your answer will be even approximately close to the truth.  There are 64 codons, nearly 5% of which are stop codons.  Take into consideration that a protein is defined as a polypeptide of >100 amino acids and therefore 3000 a minimum of 3000 codons, that there are at least 10,000 genes coding for proteins, and that therefore nowhere in the reading frame of these 10,000 proteins can you find a stop codon.  That's only one of the problems... assuming you care that such problems exist.  My guess is that you already know they exist but dont care.  Oh well, my two cents.

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It would be intresting to calculate how long such a calclation would take, anyone know how?

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Someone with a good computer science education should know how given the formula used in the program--qalc.

Post edited at 5:39 pm on July 1, 2008 by shadowpool

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