Platinum Enthusiast
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Is it the chemical name of some organic compound?
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Platinum Enthusiast
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That chemical name, as your monster link points out, appeared in publication in 1960 and is quaint and contrived by today's standards. The twenty amino acids that naturally occur in proteins were assigned three-letter codes (Alanine = ALA; Arginine = ARG; etc), and then more recently the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) has assigned them one-letter codes: Alanine = A; Arginine = R; etc. In this case, "methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosyl...serine" would become "MQRY...S" (Source: Bioinformatics for Dummies) In all, the monster name could be reduced (without ambiguity) from 1,913 letters to 267 letters, i.e., the number of amino acids in the protein. Intersting piece of trivia, however. 
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