The Meaning of Life: Computers are unscrambling genomes to reveal the secrets in DNA codes

摘要

In a football field-size room that genet- ics researchers have dubbed "the fac-tory," row upon row of sequencing machines churn through strands of DNA and record long strings of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs. Each symbol represents the stuff of life—the chemical bases ade-nine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine that make up the genetic code of every living organism on Earth.