It was only the third plant genome to be deciphered, after Arabidopsis and rice.
That's the line PI Harry Caul Gene Hackmann) eventually deciphers, after much expert knob-wiggling and wire-adjusting, on the audio of a conversation between a couple he's covertly taped.
The complete genome sequence of the original isolate of the model actinomycete Streptomyces lividans 66, also referred to as 1326, was deciphered after a combination of next-generation sequencing platforms and a hybrid assembly pipeline.
The genomic sequence of S. lividans 66 was deciphered after a combination of second- and third-generation sequencing-platforms, including pyrosequencing and ligation-based approaches, and single molecule real-time sequencing, respectively.
4. For most of us, it's easy for a day to disappear into an endless vortex of piles of laundry, food to prepare and homework to decipher all after a full day of work outside our home.
More valuable for straightforward reportage is Samuel Pepys' 17th-century account of the Great Fire of London, seen here in the corrected proofs of the first edition of his diaries, along with a single sheet showing the shorthand that he used to encode 3,000 handwritten pages; they were deciphered only after more than a century.
It seems we need the text to decipher the work after all.
Scholars of the 19th century were only able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics after discovering the Rosetta Stone, which was inscribed with Egyptian scripts translated into ancient Greek.
Sometimes these pictures seem just like smudges that you can only gradually make out -- or that you can't, the ones you fail to decipher simulating how, after staring at somebody too long, the person's face seems to evaporate.
In the days ahead, both cylinders will be delivered to the basement of the B.E.A. in Paris, where investigators may still be able to decipher them, even after two years underwater.
