Xen DNA TShirt
I got this TShirt at FOSDEM, I was told that it means something .
First here is all of the text from the tshirt, which should make the page more discoverable:
Xen
Project
@FOSDEM 2017
Forging the
DNA of the Cloud
AGTCTACTCAGCCGTACTTCATCGACTTAGCGTTGTCTCAGC
GCTTGTCACGTCCTGCTCGTCAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTACCTC
ACTAGCTGTGCTAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTCAATCTGTGATTAC
These three strings are a bit unweildly to work with, lets break them down into groups of three.
AGT CTA CTC AGC CGT ACT TCA TCG ACT TAG CGT TGT CTC AGC
GCT TGT CAC GTC CTG CTC GTC AGC TAG CGT CTA AGC TAC CTC
ACT AGC TGT GCT AGC TAG CGT CTA AGC TCA ATC TGT GAT TAC
Now to wikipedia to get a DNA Codon Table to refer to:
Amino acid Codons Compressed
Ala/A GCT GCC GCA GCG GCN
Arg/R CGT CGC CGA CGG AGA AGG CGN MGR
Asn/N AAT AAC AAY
Asp/D GAT GAC GAY
Cys/C TGT TGC TGY
Gln/Q CAA CAG CAR
Glu/E GAA GAG GAR
Gly/G GGT GGC GGA GGG GGN
His/H CAT CAC CAY
Ile/I ATT ATC ATA ATH
START ATG
Amino acid Codons Compressed
Leu/L TTA TTG CTT CTC CTA CTG YTR CTN
Lys/K AAA AAG AAR
Met/M ATG
Phe/F TTT TTC TTY
Pro/P CCT CCC CCA CCG CCN
Ser/S TCT TCC TCA TCG AGT AGC TCN AGY
Thr/T ACT ACC ACA ACG ACN
Trp/W TGG
Tyr/Y TAT TAC TAY
Val/V GTT GTC GTA GTG GTN
STOP TAA TGA TAG TAR TRA
I poked at this for ages, I wondered if I had need to the take the codons in as they are written. A column at a time. But even looking at that, there was nothing obvious about the codon sequence.
After a while I started searching for subsequences from the string. This didn't help at all, but one page on google had a related search for ['dna message translator'][3]. Annoyingly I fed in this string:
AGTCTACTCAGCCGTACTTCATCGACTTAGCGTTGTCTCAGCGCTTGTCACGTCCTGCTCGTCAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTACCTCACTAGCTGTGCTAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTCAATCTGTGATTAC
And got the result:
XEN HACKATHON FORGING THE DNA OF THE CLOUD
Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon