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This really is putting the cart before the horse though, we will have whole genome assembly technology long before we understand functional genomics well enough
by yellowcake0 4y ago
This really is putting the cart before the horse though, we will have whole genome assembly technology long before we understand functional genomics well enough to do the type of restorative genetic engineering that you propose.
- henearkr 4y agoWell you're right but the idea of getting all of the DNA information is precisely to be sure to not rely on what we think we know, so that if in the future we discover that previously thought useless parts are meaningful we would already have them in store (gathered long before the DNA gets damaged by age). Once we have everything, we can apply additional knowledge to this data as soon as it is discovered and without needing to do more sequencing.