Timeline for Can one identify an organism based on its genome alone?
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| Aug 10, 2021 at 16:02 | vote | accept | Ayman Alhourani | ||
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| Aug 10, 2021 at 13:43 | history | edited | Imprisoned Rhesus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | Armand | Yes, by OPs mentioning a "model" I was assuming that model would contain info like hair color genes and so forth. In re-reading the question it does seem the OP intends a de novo model based on structure prediction. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 13:27 | comment | added | toolforger | @Armand we know only that specific genes correlate with specific hair colors, but we don't know the full cause-and-effect chain. In the end, to determine "this gene encodes red hair" from first principles, you'd have to know the function of all the genes that are involved in creating hair cells, pigments in general, and how the gene is activated in hair cells but not in skin cells. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 7:49 | comment | added | mgkrebbs | @Armand, that doesn't fit the question, which specifies "without reference to anything else (ex: a repository of genomes of known living organisms)". | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 2:05 | comment | added | Armand | However, there are individual genetic variants with known function. For example, given a person's genome, we should be able to roughly predict what hair color and texture they have, eye color, etc. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 0:34 | history | answered | Imprisoned Rhesus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |