Games in Proteins Monday, November 24, 2008 : 12:00 AM By: Chris

Another something strange this week. All technical info in the above strip is true and confirmable through the National Center of Biotechnology Information. You can use the protein BLAST tool to mine for whatever names you like within the library of protein sequences - just remember that there's no amino acid with the letter O as an abbreviation, which eliminates oh so many possibilities. Originally, I planned to make a joke about how Wii was coded into proteins, proving it's ubiquity. I thought that surely by random chance there must be protein out there that has a W-I-I sequence (tryptophan-isoleucine-isoleucine) within it, it's only 3 measily residues that need to be next to each other. Interestingly, not a single known protein has Wii in it. Actually, that's not very interesting at all.