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the instruction manual for you, written in four letters and three billion characters.
means Genomics is the branch of biology that studies an organism's entire genome — the full set of its DNA — as a whole, including how all its genes are arranged, function, and interact.
from A young word for a young science. It fuses 'genome' with the suffix '-ics' (as in 'physics,' 'economics' — the study of a thing). 'Genome' itself, coined in the early 20th century, is usually traced to a blend of 'gene' and 'chromosome' — 'gene' from Greek 'genos,' meaning birth, origin, or race, the same root behind 'genesis' and 'generate.' 'Genomics' as a discipline name only took hold late in the 20th century, when reading whole genomes became thinkable; a journal called Genomics, launched in the 1980s, helped fix the term.
- first map
- Human Genome Project cost $3 billion over 13 years
- now cheaper
- A full genome sequence costs around $200 today
- mostly mystery
- Genes are under 2% of your DNA
- banana cousin
- You share roughly 50% of DNA with bananas
- data hog
- One genome fills about 200 gigabytes raw
human genome project — international effort that sequenced all 3 billion base pairs of human dna, completed in 2003
cancer genome atlas — nih program that sequenced genomes of 11,000+ tumors across 33 cancer types