The Coronavirus Is 7.4kb

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Which coronavirus is this supposed to be? There are more than one, and the text doesn't differentiate. Also, it is closer to 30Kb.

i suppose if the sequence was copied and pasted into a sequence tool like you may find at genbank, you could get some idea where this sequence was copied from.

I didn't realize you can paste in entire genomes. That makes for impressively large search strings.

the paste is the header for phrack magazine issue 59 ; Release date : 2002-07-28

http://www.phrack.org/issues/59/1.html

looking through the issue i dont see how corona virus relates to the issue.

The sequence of bases is in the last line.

yes i see that part but what im looking at is that the header for phrack issue 59 is a major part of the paste and it has nothing to do with coronavirus.

there is a list of names, that are involved in the current effort vs coronavirus.

it seems like someone is trying to look KEWL...

Kind of. It's a demoscene / old zine thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nfo

They just reused the header format they liked.

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