On today's news that the human genome has been sequenced with a pocket device, here's my feature on what the world looks like when such devices are commonplacehttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/this-technology-will-allow-anyone-to-sequence-dna-anywhere/479625/ …
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Yeah, it's just reading the actual dna sequences as I understand. No guarantee we have any idea what any of it means. More and more specific genes are understood but overall system understanding hard. /cc
@Erikacander -
Toss in pleiotropism and methylation effects - both of which potentially contribute to
#phenotype- and interpretation of the#sequence data becomes that much more complex... Not necessarily insurmountable at the technical level, but would take a lot of#processing power.
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