Randal Koene - Quick conversation about DNA Sequencing 2011-10-01

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2011 · Science & Technology

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DNA Sequencing - when pricepoint gets really low, you can over many sequences, monitor what is going on in the dna, what is going on over time with a disease, ... useful also for sequencing the biosphere - useful?  If you can sequence everything you can see how one thing is related to another, see common ancestors, what traits come from what part of the dna, which is more a correlational study now, not that mechanistic.  If you want to learn form DNA you need to have huge databases full of it.
We only have ~92% of the human genome (due to repeat sequences that don't come out nicely from shotgun sequences).


 The first Transhumanist conference in Asia will be H+ @HK
The conference website is http://hk.humanityplus.org
Dates: 3-4th of December
Also in HK on the 2nd is a TedX conference.

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