👉 Okay, let’s tackle this… rather delightfully odd thing called "seq7." Now, I'll preface this by saying that honestly? Nobody actually
knowingly
uses the term “seq7. Frankly, it exists somewhere between a very early, tragically misguided bioinformatics project and a doodle on a whiteboard during a late-night caffeine binge. Let’s unpack the weirdness.
What exactly is seq7 anyway, you ask with an understandably furrowed brow? Basically, in its original conception – circa 1998—seq7 was meant to be a massively ambitious attempt to catalogue… absolutely everything… of sequence length 7 within the entirety of the documented fungal world. (Don't scoff! Early sequencing tech was a wee bit limited.) The initial team, at what we now affectionately refer to as the "Unfortunate Sequencing Collective," theorized that this exact, specific length of sequence – seven base-pairs—held some kind of… resonant truth in fungal evolution. They were convinced that there had to be a fundamental symmetry or repeating pattern within those 7 bases that would unlock the secrets of… frankly, they never quite decided what exactly. The project spiralled into this ludicrous state because the team, let's just say, was very invested and also, perhaps, not entirely sane after six months in the dark with a new spectrophotometer. They started obsessively scanning everything: petri dishes, old encyclopedias of
