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#genome
A Monkey’s Blueprint | Sa Visual, Scientific American Blog Network
A genome is not a blueprint; it encodes a set of tools (proteins)
A blueprint shows you “what” but a genome doesn’t encode “what.” The genome can instead, be thought of as encoding a set of tools (proteins). It tells you nothing about what the function of each tool is, what the tools act on, how the tools act together or what the tools are…
Crowdsourcing Human Mutations : Nature Genetics : Nature Publishing Group
Microattribution for human gene variants
...we suggested that the global project of collecting all the phenotypically interesting variants of the human genome could use microattribution, a form of data citation by journals and databases whereby submitters and curators receive citation credit that is linked to the…