The Human Genome Is Far More Complex Than Scientists Thought

It's also a call for sheer amazement at Gods creation. The click through is a great write up;

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/09/05/encode-the-rough-guide-to-the-human-genome/

Agreed. Worth reading.

Here's an interesting snippet:

Transparency is a big issue too. “With these really intensive science projects, there has to be a huge amount of trust that data analysts have done things correctly,” says Birney. But you don’t have to trust. At least half the ENCODE figures are interactive, and the data behind them can be downloaded. The team have also built a “Virtual Machine” – a downloadable package of the almost-raw data and all the code in the ENCODE analyses. Think of it as the most complete Methods section ever. With the virtual machine, “you can absolutely replay step by step what we did to get to the figure,” says Birney. “I think it should be the standard for the future.”

Yes. This is how science should be done. You'll never see anything like this from the global warming crowd.

Calling a spade a spade.....

This guarantees several things.

More money for research “we aren’t close to a universal cure for ANYTHING yet...we need more $$$” isn’t that a noble cause? (prefer the nice MLT mutton lettuce and tomato when the tomatoes are fresh and the mutton is nice and lean....they’re so perky)

Continued revenues from continued, expensive, crushing therapies and treatments (not to mention the wide array of $$$$$$ te$t$)

Breakthroughs in treatments (ongoing) that will require the burdensome weight of the FDA, its minions, consensus, and time to market.

Magnificence in complexity, God’s grace is greatest.

The 98% commonality ~ which is now more like 94%, was based on GENES ~ not the entire DNA strands in our genome. The epigenetic studies have already shown us to be less entangled with chimps than is comfortable for some. Actually, the orangutangs are making a far better showing these days than some other lines of apes.

This work will lead eventually to several things:

(1) The disestablishment of Darwinian evolution entirely,

(2) The replacement of current evolution discussion that focuses on genes and their variations with something else that probably doesn't even sound like evolution (as if current "change" stuff does) ~ probably more like how our immune systems attack bugs, and

(3) A way into controlled gene resetting or modification ~ so if you get a bad mutation "they" can fix it!

I'm expecting that at some point someone will figure out how to wire up a chromosome so that we can communicate with it directly ~ see what it's thinking of ~ where it's going ~ why it "did that" instead of "this" ~ and so forth.

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