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FWIW the study focuses on the coding region of the human genome, i.e., the other 2%. It is also important to point out that the fraction of non-coding DNA in a

FWIW the study focuses on the coding region of the human genome, i.e., the other 2%. It is also important to point out that the fraction of non-coding DNA in a genome depends on the organism and is not correlated to complexity. There are multicellular organisms with less than 5% of it as well as unicellular organisms with amounts of DNA orders of magnitude higher than humans.

adolph 5y ago
the marbled lungfish has the largest recorded genome of any eukaryote. One haploid copy of this fish's genome is composed of a whopping 132.8 billion base pairs, while one copy of a human haploid genome has only 3.5 billion http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/eukaryotic-genome-complexity-437 http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/eukaryotic-genome-c...
- scrollaway 5y ago
  DNA developers these days just use electron and don’t care about efficiency. That lungfish is ripe for a refactoring. Bet I could implement a new lungfish with only a few million base pairs in a weekend.
  - flobosg 5y ago
    640 kbp should be enough for anybody.
  - yellowcake0 5y ago
    Is electron some sort of synthetic genome compiler?
    - ComputerGuru 5y ago
      It’s a (not well executed) joke about electron’s memory consumption and how developers refuse to use anything better.
      - Zababa 5y ago
        I think the joke may be about binary size and not memory, which would make sense when talking about DNA.
      - scrollaway 5y ago
        > not well executed Aw! :( For the record I like Electron a lot and am usually the one to defend it on HN, but it indeed was a comment on binary size, needless duplication and copy-paste culture ;)
    - richeyryan 5y ago
      To be specific, it is Javascript based desktop application platform. Each finished app ships its own version of Chrome which affects the size and arguably adds quite a lot of overhead. It also makes developing cross-platform desktop applications much more accessible, thus making it easier for more developers to make slow, unoptimized applications. Overall it has become a meme for bulky, slow desktop apps with Visual Studio Code being the notable exception.

adolph 5y ago

the marbled lungfish has the largest recorded genome of any eukaryote. One haploid copy of this fish's genome is composed of a whopping 132.8 billion base pairs, while one copy of a human haploid genome has only 3.5 billion http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/eukaryotic-genome-complexity-437 http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/eukaryotic-genome-c...

scrollaway 5y ago
DNA developers these days just use electron and don’t care about efficiency. That lungfish is ripe for a refactoring. Bet I could implement a new lungfish with only a few million base pairs in a weekend.
- flobosg 5y ago
  640 kbp should be enough for anybody.
- yellowcake0 5y ago
  Is electron some sort of synthetic genome compiler?
  - ComputerGuru 5y ago
    It’s a (not well executed) joke about electron’s memory consumption and how developers refuse to use anything better.
    - Zababa 5y ago
      I think the joke may be about binary size and not memory, which would make sense when talking about DNA.
    - scrollaway 5y ago
      > not well executed Aw! :( For the record I like Electron a lot and am usually the one to defend it on HN, but it indeed was a comment on binary size, needless duplication and copy-paste culture ;)
  - richeyryan 5y ago
    To be specific, it is Javascript based desktop application platform. Each finished app ships its own version of Chrome which affects the size and arguably adds quite a lot of overhead. It also makes developing cross-platform desktop applications much more accessible, thus making it easier for more developers to make slow, unoptimized applications. Overall it has become a meme for bulky, slow desktop apps with Visual Studio Code being the notable exception.