You cough and sneeze. "Ah, another bug," runs the realization through your head. You put the napkin into the sequencer, plug its USB cord into your laptop, and start the awful Java application it came from. Fifteen minutes later, it beeps, trimphantly, and in the middle of the HAdV-A31 genome, you see a chunk of plaintext.
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