"It isn’t all roses. There is a joke among the genetic community that you can get
your DNA sequenced for $1,000, but it will cost $1,000,000 to interpret it. DNA
is complex. Each of us contains six billion nucleotides that are arranged like
letters in a book that tell a unique story. And while scientists have deciphered
the alphabet that makes up the billions of letters of our genome, we know
woefully little about its vocabulary, grammar and syntax. The problem is that if
you want to learn how to read, you need books, lots of them, and up until
recently we had very few books to learn from."
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your DNA sequenced for $1,000, but it will cost $1,000,000 to interpret it. DNA
is complex. Each of us contains six billion nucleotides that are arranged like
letters in a book that tell a unique story. And while scientists have deciphered
the alphabet that makes up the billions of letters of our genome, we know
woefully little about its vocabulary, grammar and syntax. The problem is that if
you want to learn how to read, you need books, lots of them, and up until
recently we had very few books to learn from."
Read full article...