Pattern 43:First 14 Letters of Genesis 1:1 Match Four Chromosome Files

Why this result is being preserved

The first three words of Genesis 1:1 contain exactly 14 letters, one-half of the verse’s 28 letters. Pattern 43 applies a predetermined encoding and matching procedure to the same archived human reference-genome data used by the original experiment.

The importance of this result depends on whether the procedure, chromosome selection, search limit, and reported matches can be reproduced from the published data and source code.

Exact genome data used

This experiment requires the GRCh38.p12 human reference-genome chromosome files originally downloaded from NCBI on August 28, 2019. Updated assemblies or revised chromosome files may produce different results.

Download the archived GRCh38.p12 chromosome files

Extract gz.zip before running the verification program. These archived files are also used for Patterns 67 and 68.

Original NCBI filename pattern: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Homo_sapiens/CHR_1/hs_ref_GRCh38.p12_chr1.fa.gz, with the chromosome designation changed to 1–22, X, Y, or MT.

Current verification status

The original dataset remains in the author's possession, but the former Internet download location is downloadable at gz.zip. The exact dataset version, encoding rules, tested keys, matching criteria, and chromosome-by-chromosome results must be documented before another researcher can reproduce the experiment.

This result has not yet been independently replicated. The four qualifying chromosomes and their matching positions will be listed here after the original experiment has been reconstructed and rerun.

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Probability status

No standalone probability is presently assigned to Pattern 43. A defensible estimate requires control targets tested with exactly the same encoding, number of keys, 23 chromosome files, 50,000-position limit, and matching rule. It must also account for any alternative encodings or search limits examined while developing the pattern.

Patterns 43, 67, and 68 use the same archived GRCh38.p12 source files, but they should be treated as separate experiments if their encoding rules, search ranges, or matching procedures differ. Because they use the same underlying genome data and related portions of Genesis 1:1, their probability contributions should not automatically be treated as independent.

Supporting tables

Words 1, 2, and 3 are highlighted.