World's Smallest Genome
Colin_Fredericks 29 Mar 2016 13:32
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/03/28/the-smallest-viable-genome-is-very-weird
An excerpt:
One third of this stripped-down minimialist genome is still made of of genes that we don’t understand. There are some kinases and hydrolases, etc., whose substrates, products, and functions are unknown, but there are some that are just big question marks. Clearly we have some work to do if there are so many fundamental processes that aren’t even annotated.
Which reminds me a bit of https://xkcd.com/1605/