CNN's John Sutter watched a video call between Alex Washburn and a technical expert within a genome sequencing lab. bioinformatics is the science of working out what a gene sequence is and how it's related to another gene sequence, he says. "It's very like reading a medieval manuscript, trying to work out Did this monk copy that monk, or was it the other way around?" writes Sutter.

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