Interviewee: Ewan Birney. Ewan Birney, a key figure in the public sequence analysis, talks about trying to find meaning in the sequence. (DNAi Location: Genome > The project > Players>Technology > Understanding the masterpiece)

The analogy I use is that the genome is a bit like a big, thick, meaty Russian book. It looks really important, it's written by a great author like Leo Tolstoy, it's War And Peace, you open it up and it's in Russian. And really you need to get the English translation of that book to really understand what's in it. And that's what the process of finding genes is all about, it's effectively making that English translation, that understandable, useful way of viewing this very thick, huge tome that we get out.

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