How a programmer views the human genome

Grabbed this fantastic description on the ultimate question in the galaxy.

The genome is the source of a program to build and run a human

But: the author is not available for comment

It’s 3GB in size

In a single line

Due to constant forking, there are about 7 billion different versions

It’s full of copy-and-paste and cruft

And it’s completely undocumented

Q: How do you debug it?

 

Brilliant

I agree!

I forgot there are 7 billion versions when actually only 1000 are publicly avail for download! Lol

Author is 

Jim Stalker, the Senior Scientific Manager in charge of vertebrate resequencing informatics at the Sanger center. Grabbed off Todd Smith's post