Tuesday, March 10, 2009

News at Eleven (Back Page): [Christian] Bök describes how

the poem will be encoded:

The poem can be most easily encoded by assigning a short, unique sequence of nucleotides to each letter of the alphabet, as Wong has done. But I want my poem to cause the organism to make a protein in response--a protein that also encodes a poem. I am striving to engineer a life form that becomes a durable archive for storing a poem, and a machine for writing a poem--a poem that can survive forever.

from Technology Review: TR Editors' blog: Poetry Written in DNA

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