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The genome in every cell breaks down after death into thousands of small fragments of DNA.
But the genome, in a way, is really just a blueprint.
Open-access publication of the cacao genome in 2010 is now bearing fruit.
Knome is using a technology that reads the genome in short fragments that can be tricky to assemble.
The shotgun method worked for the fruit fly genome, in his view, but the human genome is much more complicated.
"We don't feel that we can afford on our own to do every genome in history," he said.
"You find this same idea of a genome in the western musical canon – that's why the music makes sense".
And then there's the ongoing news of the unraveling of the human genome in all its amazing complexity.
The federal government is supporting technology development with an eye to a $1,000 genome in the next decade.
For example, the very first stages of embryonic development are not under the control of the genome in the nucleus, but of factors in the egg.
