• Question: how many genomes have you decoded?

    Asked by 69boss to Nick, Jane on 7 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by jackthehat8.
    • Photo: Nick Goldman

      Nick Goldman answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      I’m going to claim 29. I was part of the team that was the first to look at the whole mouse genome, which was in 2002. Since then, we’ve been involved with the gorilla genome, and a study that compared 29 mammals’ genomes all at once. Since the 29 included mouse and gorilla, I guess that’s my total.

    • Photo: Jane Charlesworth

      Jane Charlesworth answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      I look at genomes from different, but closely related bacteria and compare them to find the differences, so I’m going to claim 2000, which is the size of the data set I am currently looking at. Finding out something is the same as something you’ve already looked at counts as decoding, right? 😉

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