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This looks like a pretty awesome resource. I think it's well worth it to spend some of your quarantine time on learning the basics of the biology you need to know to understand what's actually going on with the virus that's the reason you're in quarantine in the first place. It's not super productive to try and understand this stuff through analogy to computers and algorithms. Assuming DNA works just like code amd that cells are biological computers turned out to be a very poor assumption indeed, as evidenced by how much less we understand after sequencing the human genome compared to what we thought we would have known. It's also why the secrets of the coronavirus didnt reveal themselves immediately after sequencing it's genome. See the epigenetics section for a bit of an understanding of the layer of complexity that lies on top of DNA, and let's take a moment to appreciate the biochemists and the protein biologists unraveling what makes SARS-COV-2 tick.

If you want to really grok genetics and be able to understand and interpret news and discussion about the field, especially considering how important the field is in our day to day lives, both with the virus and with biotech/medicine in general.

parent vikramkr 6 years ago

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