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Genomes are used as a reference point for all sorts of genetic analysis. It's comparable to having the source code to a binary. Plant breeding in particular ben
by grey413 8y ago
Genomes are used as a reference point for all sorts of genetic analysis. It's comparable to having the source code to a binary. Plant breeding in particular benefits from having better analytical tools on hand, since it's such a critical field with such a gargantuan and diverse pool of organisms to study.
- Old_Thrashbarg 8y agoIn that analogy, perhaps it's more like having successfully read out every byte of a binary that was encoded onto a medium that is extremely to read off of. Having the source code... I'm not sure what that would be analogous to, but it would probably quite a long way off.