a — t — g — c

15.10 — Using the same code that com­pu­ter key­boards use, the Japa­ne­se group, led by Masaru Tomi­ta of Keio Uni­ver­si­ty, wro­te four copies of Albert Einstein’s famous for­mu­la, E=mc2, along with “1905,” the date that the young Ein­stein deri­ved it, into the bacterium’s geno­me, the 400-mil­li­on-long string of A’s, G’s, T’s and C’s that deter­mi­ne ever­y­thing the litt­le bug is and ever­y­thing it’s ever going to be. — Inter­na­tio­nal Harald Tri­bu­ne / June 26, 2007. — Die Vor­stel­lung eines mensch­li­chen Lebe­we­sens, das 15 Jah­re in sei­nem per­sön­li­chen Code nach Infor­ma­tio­nen sucht, die nicht zu ihm gehö­ren, add-ons, die Lite­ra­tur sind. — stop