Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
canopic jug writes:
Software developer Bert Hubert explores reverse engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate being rolled out. Pfizer claims to have used mRNA to encode instructions for producing the distinctive outer layer of protein coating the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Welcome! In this post, we'll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine.
Now, these words may be somewhat jarring - the vaccine is a liquid that gets injected in your arm. How can we talk about source code?
[...] The BNT162b mRNA vaccine [has] digital code at its heart. It is 4284 characters long, so it would fit in a bunch of tweets. At the very beginning of the vaccine production process, someone uploaded this code to a DNA printer (yes), which then converted the bytes on disk to actual DNA molecules.
What follows is a reasonably accessible explanation of what the vaccine does, and how it does it, step-by-step.
Hubert also has a much older blog post on DNA sequencing.
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