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by kps 580 days ago
You can't parse DNA with regex¹.

¹ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

2 comments

Excellent point. But it works for bacteria I guess, because viral dna is small.
And when it doesn't work... well, bacteria die all the time. Humans are less tolerant of random death.
So good, thanks for resurfacing this one!