Word: dna
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...sophomore year at Duke University in the 1970s, Church—who is currently a professor of genomics at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—designed a program that folded up one-dimensional DNA structures into cloverleaf-like structures...
Church hopes the project will allow his team to get “large information chunks” on the subjects by the end of the year. Their DNA has already been partially sequenced, and the first stage of the program is more than halfway complete...
Today, as director of Harvard’s Personal Genome Project (PGP)—which promises to make DNA sequencing a faster and more cost-efficient process—his quest to improve our knowledge of genetics with the aid of computer science continues...
Because only 0.1 percent of DNA accounts for the differences in human traits—including weight, hair color and disposition to diseases—scientists must decode millions of genomes before they can find the particular genes that relate to variations across individuals...
...idea behind driving down costs is similar to that in the computer industry. Church says that to decrease costs, genomists must decrease manual labor as much as possible and create denser, smaller samples of DNA and enzymes...