New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics

Post by ddiq » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 6:03 AM UTC

beambot wrote: post #113

ddiq wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't really follow. We don't need to have a complete map genotype to phenotype in order to have an understanding of the weight of genetic component of certain traits. Just because we don't know exactly which genes cause a certain hair color doesn't mean we can't guess which parents are more likely to have children with that hair color. The same goes for behavior that can be measured and predicted. As long as…

If you drop an apple & observe that it falls, you get some predictive value about the nature of gravity. But that's a far cry from computing the orbital dynamics of a spacecraft. Parent's comment on "transparency" in the mapping from genotype to phenotype was more akin to the latter -- and their point stands.