Lukeje said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Lukeje said:
That's just a string of amino-acids; I don't think that it really counts as a "real word".
You'd think that, but it has been used in
American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts, so I believe it now counts.
There is one larger at 3561 characters, but it's never been used.
I'm trying to google/web of science the string to find the paper, but apparently the input is "too long". Which of course begs the question of why in the hell someone would include a reference for their paper that's unsearchable in its entirety?
Abbreviations to the rescue!
Acetyl-Ser-Tyr-Ser-Ile-Thr-Ser-Pro-Ser-Gln-Phe-Val-Phe-Leu-Ser-Ser-Val-Trp-Ala-Asp-Pro-Ile-Glu-Leu-Leu-Asn-Val-Cys-Thr-Ser-Ser-Leu-Gly-Asn-Gln-Phe-Gln-Thr-Gln-Gln-Ala-Arg-Thr-Thr-Gln-Val-Gln-Gln-Phe-Ser-Gln-Val-Trp-Lys-Pro-Phe-Pro-Gln-Ser-Thr-Val-Arg-Phe-Pro-Gly-Asp-Val-Tyr-Lys-Val-Tyr-Arg-Tyr-Asn-Ala-Val-Leu-Asp-Pro-Leu-Ile-Thr-Ala-Leu-Leu-Gly-Thr-Phe-Asp-Thr-Arg-Asn-Arg-Ile-Ile-Glu-Val-Glu-Asn-Gln-Gln-Ser-Pro-Thr-Thr-Ala-Glu-Thr-Leu-Asp-Ala-Thr-Arg-Arg-Val-Asp-Asp-Ala-Thr-Val-Ala-Ile-Arg-Ser-Ala-Asn-Ile-Asn-Leu-Val-Asn-Glu-Leu-Val-Arg-Gly-Thr-Gly-Leu-Tyr-Asn-Gln-Asn-Thr-Phe-Glu-Ser-Met-Ser-Gly-Leu-Val-Trp-Thr-Ser-Ala-Pro-Ala-Ser
It ends in the word "laser". Yeeee.
If that's too long for the search engine, there's always the alternative abbreviation method:
Acetyl-S-Y-S-I-T-S-P-S-Q-F-V-F-L-S-S-V-W-A-D-P-I-E-L-L-N-V-C-T-S-S-L-G-N-Q-F-Q-T-Q-Q-A-R-T-T-Q-V-Q-Q-F-S-Q-V-W-K-P-F-P-Q-S-T-V-R-F-P-G-D-V-Y-K-V-Y-R-Y-N-A-V-L-D-P-L-I-T-A-L-L-G-T-F-D-T-R-N-R-I-I-E-V-E-N-Q-Q-S-P-T-T-A-E-T-L-D-A-T-R-R-V-D-D-A-T-V-A-I-R-S-A-N-I-N-L-V-N-E-L-V-R-G-T-G-L-Y-N-Q-N-T-F-E-S-M-S-G-L-V-W-T-S-A-P-A-S
You wouldn't
believe how easy it is to confuse asparagine with aspartic acid, or glutamine with glutamic acid.
I could draw it out (theoretically), but since there are
one hundred and fifty-eight amino acids there (plus an acetyl group), it would take
HOURS.
My head hurts now.
