Seuwencing the whole thing means we can read every letter present in the sequence, but it's still a language we don't understand fully. Also this is a book without any spaces and sometimes we struggle to figure out where they should go. On top of it all the sequence isn't the end all be all, as you can have epigenetic modifications (for more search epigenetics) which change how genes behave, or conditional activation (only works following certain criteria or vice versa).
I don't want to minimise the achievement, the human genome project was grand and we learned loads, but following that there is a 10,000 genome project and even that isn't enough!
This is only scratching the surface of what we don't know too, but enough to give an idea I hope
Edit: changed post translational to epigenetic modifications, had had a brain fart
Break_Fancy t1_iy966lk wrote
Reply to What does it mean when people say that we've fully sequenced the human genome? by Ethan-Wakefield
Not nearly enough, is what it lets us do!
Seuwencing the whole thing means we can read every letter present in the sequence, but it's still a language we don't understand fully. Also this is a book without any spaces and sometimes we struggle to figure out where they should go. On top of it all the sequence isn't the end all be all, as you can have epigenetic modifications (for more search epigenetics) which change how genes behave, or conditional activation (only works following certain criteria or vice versa).
I don't want to minimise the achievement, the human genome project was grand and we learned loads, but following that there is a 10,000 genome project and even that isn't enough!
This is only scratching the surface of what we don't know too, but enough to give an idea I hope
Edit: changed post translational to epigenetic modifications, had had a brain fart