Gene sequences are easy. Methylation, expression, and protein folding are hard. You can sequence a human genome with a single computer in a day or two; sequen

Gene sequences are easy. Methylation, expression, and protein folding are hard. You can sequence a human genome with a single computer in a day or two; sequencing generates about 30G of data. By contrast, protein folding has its own distributed crowdsourcing project (Folding@Home), with collected computational power of 98.7 petaflops, and it still has barely scratched the surface of our understanding for how specific proteins generate their biological effects.