'Post genomic era' reveals nothing less than a new biology

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/09/17/viewpoint-the-post-genomic-era-reveals-nothing-less-than-a-new-biology-we-just-dont-know-how-to-talk-about-it/

by bookofjoe • 2 years ago

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notarobot123• 2 years ago

This story is (for the most part) not wrong. It’s plenty good enough to give students a rough notion of how biology works. But its elisions, omissions and simplifications can create serious misconceptions about what genes are and do.

This sounds like a recurring pattern across any and all fields of scientific research. We create simplified models of the world and forget we are thinking in abstractions that obscure some of the messy and beautiful details of the real world.

rini174• 2 years ago

The LLMs are cracking all the genomes and molecular biology as we speak. Holding my breath.

jowdones2• 2 years ago

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rini174• 2 years ago

Maybe. I'm not so sure anymore.

rini174• 2 years ago

Why are you so absolutely sure there's no low hanging fruit for AI to pick.

fastaguy88• 2 years ago

Just a minor correction. Most of the proteins encoded by the human genome are NOT enzymes. Only about 17% of the ~20,000 human proteins have known enzyme activities. Many proteins (probably the majority of protein mass in the cell) are structural, and others do signaling and metabolite transport.

'Post genomic era' reveals nothing less than a new biology

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