Re: Whats taking so long?

Paul Ciszek wrote:
In article <5250dd14-6972-420a-9db7-5704bc0374dd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
chris thompson <chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 30, 5:43 pm, spintronic <spintro...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When will the Craig Venter Institute, plagiarize synthetic life?

Any idea how many genes make up this "minimum genome" ?

Or is it still well into the hundreds?

Weird that!
Why is it plagiarism?

I teach my students about plagiarism every semester. If Ventner
synthesizes life, is it plagiarism?

If so, why?

Please don't respond in generalities. Plagiarism is a VERY specific
charge.

Please do everyone the courtesy of providing every reference
available.

It's not a bad term--as I understand it, the plan is to take a naturally
existing genome, pare it down as much as possible, then assemble that
DNA sequence artificially and see if you can produce a living cell from
it. When that sort of thing is done with technology, it's called
"reverse engineering" instead of "plagiarism", but its the same idea.
It is plagiarism in the sense that the DNA sequence used to produce the
artificial cell will not be original work, but copied from somewhere.
The fact that it is copied from nature instead of from another person's
work doesn't really change anything.


So artists are plagiarists when they paint from life?

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