Biocode : the new age of genomics / Dawn Field & Neil Davies.
The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the future...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the future. The structure of DNA was identified in 1953, and the whole human genome was mapped by 2003. Since then the new field of genomics has mushroomed and is now operating on anindustrial scale. Genomes can now be sequenced rapidly and increasingly cheaply. The genomes of large numbers of organisms from mammals to microbes, have been mapped. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191511561 0191511560 1322830797 9781322830797 0199687757 9780199687756 |
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