Introduction
Welcome to the introductory post of a series I will be writing which looks at what a genome is (on a computer) and the computational issues associated with obtaining and publishing them. This is the main focus of my research towards my PhD and I will continue to update and expand on these posts as I learn more.
This and subsequent posts will be directed toward a non-technical audience with little background in computer science and biology, therefore you will be spared nuanced points, and arcane vocabulary as much as possible. However I will post bits of Python code which I will use to demonstrate points and readers are encouraged to follow along (python is found on basically all computers). I welcome comments, clarifications and contributions to this article. Please register to post a comment or send me an email.
This series is inspired by a short book The Computer and The Brain by mathematician John von Neumann.
John von Neumann