Not a biologist. Most genes code for proteins, so in a programming sense, the genome would be a directory and the genes files. Obviously, the raw order and pos

Not a biologist. Most genes code for proteins, so in a programming sense, the genome would be a directory and the genes files. Obviously, the raw order and position of files on disk doesn't matter if you just want to run them. But it seems that there is also information in the genome which is position dependent, which is more of what you alluded, that moving stuff around would break things.