Africa in the Age of Biology docx

... sense of humour: the information฀demands in genomics฀are฀staggering. The genome฀contains฀two฀kinds of digital฀information,฀one฀that฀encodes the protein฀and฀RNA฀‘molecular฀machines of life’,฀and the other฀being the regulatory฀networks฀that฀specify฀how฀these฀genes฀are฀expressed in time,฀space฀and฀amplitude.฀DNA฀information฀is฀layered฀and฀arranged in a฀hierarchy,฀starting฀with the gene,฀then฀ the RNA,฀ then฀ the protein,฀ then฀ the protein฀ interactions,฀ then฀ the protein฀complexes,฀then the networks of protein฀complexes฀ in a฀ cell,฀then฀ the tissues฀ and฀organs,฀then the individual฀organism,฀followed฀by฀populations฀and the ecosystems in which฀they฀live. In this฀kind of discovery฀science,฀mastering฀such฀vast฀quantities of information฀to฀answer฀important฀questions฀is฀a฀skill฀and฀an฀art.And the hardware? The first฀automated฀sequencing฀machine฀took฀a฀day, in 1986,฀to฀sequence฀250 of the three฀billion฀base฀pairs.฀It฀took the human฀genome฀project฀ten฀years฀to฀sequence the human฀genome,฀two฀years฀shorter฀than฀predicted;฀and the private฀company฀Celera฀with฀its฀so-called฀shotgun฀approach฀took฀less฀than the public฀consortium’s฀ ... www.hsrcpublishers.ac.za 1 Africa in the Age of Biology Harvard฀ University’s฀ Richard฀Lewontin in his฀ book฀ Human฀ diversity฀ explains the meaning฀ of what฀is฀ known฀ in the world of mathematics฀ as฀Markovian฀properties฀operating฀as฀part of the dynamics of physical฀and฀natural฀systems.฀ The ... was฀preserved in Arabic฀manuscripts’฀(Lewontin฀1995:฀148).฀There฀is฀no฀question฀that the libraries of Alexandria฀were฀central฀to the city฀and฀ the broad฀region฀including฀what฀today฀is the Middle-East,฀North Africa and฀much of Central฀and฀Western฀Europe;฀that฀they฀were฀not the only฀ones฀to฀exist฀but฀were฀part฀ of a฀larger฀set of institutions฀to฀emerge฀from the concatenations of cultural,฀scholarly฀and฀other฀areas of learning฀and฀application of what฀were฀then the advanced฀societies฀ of this฀part of the world. The agency of their฀ruin฀is฀not฀so฀certain,฀neither฀is฀it฀clear฀what฀it฀was in volume฀and฀substance฀...

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