Software reveals the inner workings of the human genome

The approximately 30,000 genes discovered in the human genome are far fewer than the 50,000 to 140,000 scientists had expected to find. Furthermore, some simpler organisms have more genes—or proportionally more—than do humans. The rice genome contains 50,000 genes and the fly 14,000, to cite two examples.

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