[joshuahedlund]

That’s what I thought too until I learned about

- the dna that doesn’t code for proteins but makes up the vast majority of human dna

- the intron regions of genes that are translated into RNA but then sliced out of the RNA and not transcribed into protein and are 5x larger than the coding parts

Those two things alone are absolutely critical to understand to interpret a genome sequence. Of course there is much more.