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-- Perseverence pays off at last.
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<br>winmodem(tm), HSP, ACP, DSP, whatever. Just call my ISP already
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Welcome to the Extra issue this February. We had a few extra things
in the queue here this time and figured you just couldn't wait, so here
they are!
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I have to say I am really very impressed by the Human Genome Project's
results. There seem to be two sides of the camp... but, we can't call
them "the Cathedral and the Bazaar":
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<li>That's already taken
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<li>The fellow the cathedrals are for, already did all the hard
work... * these folks are just studying the results.
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<li> Unless you feel something or someone else created every living thing.
Still, the fact is, living things already exist, genomes and all, so
this is discovery, not invention.
</ul><p>
Um, let's call them the College and the Commerce. Mr. James Kent in Santa
Cruz wrote, over a fairly short time, a program to have about 100 pentiums help
him assemble the genome data out of public and academic fragments. (I'm not
sure which he used more of, ice packs, or Jolt Cola.)
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Meanwhile,
Celera was pouring lots of hours and corporate resources into doing the same
thing. They both succeeded to an announceable degree, within days of each
other. We're not quite at curing cancer yet, but maybe there are enough
resources now to start nailing some of the more clearly genetic diseases.
There's certainly a lot of work to be done. Anyways, you can read a lot
about all this in the New York Times -- I did.
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Of course, to read the New York Times online at
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"
>http://www.nytimes.com</a>, they want you to register. Sigh.
To access Celera's database, you have to pay for access (but, they might
have more than they published about, too, so maybe you're at least paying
for some serious R&D). Still, what the school system paid for is available
to all of us... though not terribly readable unless you're into genetics:
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<dd><a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/">http://genome.ucsc.edu</a>
</dl>
<p>Hey wait a minute, I hear you cry. This isn't Linux! Well, I don't
know. It could have been. It doesn't matter. (Gasp! Linux doesn't
matter? What can you mean!?) What's more important is what gets
<em>done</em> with a computer.
</p><p>
The sheer number of people who have contributed to figure out how
we really tick, and the time they continue to put in, since
we aren't nearly at the point where we can run a make script,
have the waldos get out a petri dish, and create even so tiny
a creature as a mouse "from scratch" is just amazing. (Let's see,
if the Creator writes and debugs one line of code a year in us, we're
as big as... er, never mind.) Compared to that, my effort every month
on <em>LG</em> seems like a breeze.
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