This is a very good article and sound science - I don't know how the linked article itself would try and spread bio-weapon conspiracy. I tried writing up an explanation, and I'm sure other biologists will come in with more concise and better understandable ones over the next few minutes - the terminology might be confusing because it overlaps with words used in a CS context, but I think it's relevant to HN and is a high quality article, jsut in a different technical field than what you might usually see so you might need a different set of commenters to work their way out of the woodwork and try and clarify/engage in the discussion.