DNA to Latin
The letters of the Latin alphabet in descending order of usage were taken from the Perseus Project and sourced from this data base.
| letter | % | frequency |
| e | 9.3 | 728,000 |
| i | 8.9 | 700,000 |
| u | 8.7 | 680,000 |
| a | 6.8 | 530,000 |
| t | 6.5 | 510,000 |
| s | 6.0 | 470,000 |
| r | 4.9 | 380,000 |
| n | 4.9 | 380,000 |
| m | 4.5 | 350,000 |
| 0 | 4.4 | 345,000 |
| c | 3.2 | 250,000 |
| l | 2.5 | 195,000 |
| d | 2.4 | 187,000 |
| p | 2.2 | 170,000 |
| q | 1.4 | 109,000 |
| b | 1.1 | 86,000 |
| g | 0.8 | 62,000 |
| f | 0.8 | 62,000 |
| h | 0.7 | 55,000 |
| x | 0.3 | 23,000 |
| y | 0.1 | 7,800 |
| k | 0 | 434 |
| w | 0 | 322 |
| z | 0 | 307 |
Anne Mahoney, Perseus researcher, comments
The corpus [of texts] is not consistent about 'u' and 'v', and since we've retained whatever was in the original print editions, we simply counted all 'v' as 'u'. We also did not attempt to weed out Roman numerals.
The corpus we counted was about 7.8 million characters (letters, digits, and punctuation), from Plautus, Caesar (BG), Catullus, Cicero (orations and letters), Virgil, Horace (Odes), Livy (books 1-10), Ovid (Metamorphoses), Suetonius (Caesars), the Vulgate, and Servius's commentary on Virgil. Because this corpus is so heterogeneous, a lot more work could be done on refining the results.”
Using the Perseus database I did a scan searching for Di, Deo, Deus, and Divus as names of God. Di is an abbreviation of Divus, Deus is simply “God” and Deo means “By [the agency of] God” i.e. a kind of signing.
For a 64,000 Amino acid sample, there were 235 instances of Di, and 13 of Deo, but none of Deus or Divus.
So perhaps, with even more caveats than usual, God has initialled Latin as well!