{"id":3112,"date":"2005-02-28T18:19:59","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T02:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/hiv-is-biological-spam\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T18:19:59","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T02:19:59","slug":"hiv-is-biological-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/28\/hiv-is-biological-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV is biological spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/213232_microsofthiv23.html\">This deal<\/a> is pretty interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJust as a computer&#8217;s spam filter &#8220;learns&#8221; to recognize new variations from the same spammer, it is hoped a computer can learn to decipher some fundamental repeat patterns about HIV&#8217;s genetic variability and narrow the search for vaccine targets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HIV mutates by making errors in its (genetic) copying,&#8221; Jojic said. But it can make only so many errors, he said, if it hopes to retain the genetic equivalent of the spammer&#8217;s intended e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>If these techniques can identify genetic sequences retained by HIV despite its many disguises, the researchers believe this could identify critical parts of the viral DNA to target in developing a vaccine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/mossback.org\/pitchers\/Spam_HIV.gif' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeknewscentral.com\/\">Geek News Central<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This deal is pretty interesting: Just as a computer&#8217;s spam filter &#8220;learns&#8221; to recognize new variations from the same spammer, it is hoped a computer can learn to decipher some fundamental repeat patterns about HIV&#8217;s genetic variability and narrow the search for vaccine targets. &#8220;HIV mutates by making errors in its (genetic) copying,&#8221; Jojic said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/28\/hiv-is-biological-spam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HIV is biological spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Oc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}