Beauty of the genomes
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This is a conversation with Manolis Kellis. He is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. Here we talk about Manolis's journey to become an MIT professor, life as information, elements of genomes, human genome project, and current progress in understanding of human genomes.
About the guest
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:30 Manolis's journey to become an MIT professor
00:13:58 Life as an information
00:28:30 Second law of thermodynamics and genomes
00:36:20 Reading the information (genomes) in simple and complex organisms
00:38:45 Human genome project and understanding of life
00:48:09 Similarity between humans and chimpanzees
00:56:09 What increase in genome complexity means?
00:59:16 Junk DNA
01:16:16 Future of research on genomes
01:19:53 Looking at genomes through a different glass
01:22:47 Synthetic life
01:27:16 Artificial intelligence
01:30:37 Biggest discovery of 21st century
01:33:54 Beauty of the genomes
01:36:51 Thank you!