In my life, I’ve seen Christopher Columbus’ reputation take the downward spiral from hero to enemy. It has even affected me in a very superficial manner. See, even though the US government has commemorated the day he found the Americas as a holiday, I remember being devastated the year when my school district decided to [...]
January 17, 2008
The 20,500 Protein-Encoding Genome We Call Our Own
Earlier this week, news of a new paper about the number of protein-encoding genes surfaced on Sandwalk and Henry. The paper’s title is straightforward, “Distinguishing protein-coding and noncoding genes in the human genome” but the concepts behind it may not be.
As mentioned in Sandwalk, the initial estimates of the number of genes in the human [...]
