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We don't know exactly what each bit does, so we don't know what to delete.
by tazjin 7y ago
We don't know exactly what each bit does, so we don't know what to delete.
- LyndsySimon 7y agoIIRC, it’s only about 30Kb of information, and the vast majority of that is shared with similar viruses in the same family. Assuming there’s a reliable way to remove segments of the genome (I’m not a biologist, so I’m not sure if that’s practical), it doesn’t appear to be an impossible problem to solve.