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bacillus:
But the labelling's more of a maintenance thing than a self-induced mutation thing, isn't it?

shvarz:
Yes, it's maintenance of "own" and detection of "foreign". Still, it's very similar to the way some anti-viral strategies in DB are done - counting the "correct" number of own genes and deleting anything that looks like foreign piece.

The example with immune system is the example of self-induced deletion mutation.

bacillus:
The marker is a very interesting idea; a bot could mark its position in a specific memory location, and then the last genes can use those loactions to check whether any genes have viruses inbetween, then delete them.

Peksa:
I take it that there are some immune systemic stem cells that reproduce endlessly and the new cells have just one type of antibody? I've wondered how immune system produces so many different types of antibodies. Two birds with one stone, it seems.

shvarz:
By the way, bacteria and their viruses can also generate diversity in their DNA "at will":
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?...0060131#special

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