Meet the new codebreakers
The future isn't being discovered; it's being deciphered.
It’s no coincidence early breakthroughs in understanding DNA were so often described as cracking the code of life.
Those who pioneered molecular genetics did so at the dawn of digital computing, soon after World War II, and they leaned heavily on wartime advances in cryptography and information theory.
Today genetic information is so easy to generate it’s almost a commodity. But that doesn’t make it any easier to turn it into improved pastures!
Fresh codebreaking skills are needed, to sift meaning from vast amounts of seemingly meaningless letters, symbols and numbers, and help breed better plants. Welcome to bioinformatics, coming soon to a pasture near you.
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