Is this using a DNA profile -> AI image? If so that is an amazing advance.
DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and grit identified Somerton Man 75 years later
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Re: DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and grit identified Somerton Man 75 years later
#32Amazing! I wonder how much this rules out the espionage, or the connection to Jo Thomson though. I wonder if she sold him the poison or something. In any case, I am morbidly fascinated by stories of people dying alone, without children, and being forgotten. Perhaps because I feel it could be my own fate. Certainly more common than any of us are prepared for, as we are all decendents of the genetic winners.
What fascinates me about this thought is that being a genetic winner in modern society could just mean you were qualified enough to donate to a sperm bank. No more successful relationships or sinister ways of ensuring genetic survival are required.
yeah but as a donor to a sperm bank, you can certainly be forgotten much more easily than a real parent. It's like being an uncle or something.
Re: DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and grit identified Somerton Man 75 years later
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to wikipedia [1] it is a single nucleotide (or rather a single base pair). But you obviously need more base pairs to identify which base pair you are looking at in the DNA. Presumably 50-150 base pairs is the length of DNA fragments required to be able to identify where in the genome it is. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism
> But you obviously need more base pairs to identify which base pair you are looking at in the DNA. But that's not a SNP, then, that's a read that happens to contain a SNP. Generally a SNP is addressed by giving the reference base, the mutated base, the chromosome, the base position in that chromosome, and the assembly used to align the read to that location. For example, a T->C mutation at chr2:25164877 using hg38.…
If you know so much about the topic why ask questions about it?
From the context of the article it's pretty clear that the author was talking about the fragment sizes needed for analysis.
Re: DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and grit identified Somerton Man 75 years later
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But you obviously need more base pairs to identify which base pair you are looking at in the DNA. But that's not a SNP, then, that's a read that happens to contain a SNP. Generally a SNP is addressed by giving the reference base, the mutated base, the chromosome, the base position in that chromosome, and the assembly used to align the read to that location. For example, a T->C mutation at chr2:25164877 using hg38.…
If you know so much about the topic why ask questions about it? From the context of the article it's pretty clear that the author was talking about the fragment sizes needed for analysis.
I didn't ask questions about the article, only about another commenter's (incorrect) claim. The original question about the article was someone else.
I have a graduate degree in bioinformatics and have worked in the industry for close to a decade, I have a strong background in the exact topic, yes.