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The point isn't the minimal genome, it's to identify the genes important for a minimal genome.
Genetics is all about filtering the signal from the noise. Now we know that these 175 genes are important, we can start focusing efforts on them.
The problem isn't that we don't know how to figure out what a gene does, it's that there are so many goddamn genes we don't know where to start.
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The point isn't the minimal genome, it's to identify the genes important for a minimal genome.
Genetics is all about filtering the signal from the noise. Now we know that these 175 genes are important, we can start focusing efforts on them.
The problem isn't that we don't know how to figure out what a gene does, it's that there are so many goddamn genes we don't know where to start.