Biology and Informatics: Waiting for the Third Breakthrough?

... segment of the genome through these differences. Symptoms can be either neutral (eye color, blood type, average height) or pathological (this or that genetic disease). Since the differences in a particular gene (broadly speaking, in the segment of the genome) are associated with one or another external feature, they can reveal the former’s functional role. Certainly, Big Data here is of great importance. The more patients with a particular disease are analyzed, the more reliable the statistics will be, allowing for a more precise identification of the genetic markers related to this disease. No wonder that genetic ...