The Cannabis sativa genome has been sequenced by a squad of scientists in Amsterdam ( yes , really ) . Theraw genetic sequencewas station yesterday to Amazon ’s EC2 swarm computation service by a company calledMedicinal Genomics — just in clip for the weekend .
So what will we learn from weed DNA ?
Kevin McKernan , the founding father of Medical Genomics , say the society ’s research was inspired bythis 2003 publication in Nature Reviews Cancer , which examines the legion therapeutic applications of cannabinoids — the active components of Cannabis sativa and its differential — includingcancer intervention that could shrink tumors .
You ’ll witness about 60 different cannabinoids in your fair strain of Cannabis sativa , the most famous among them being delta-9 - tetrahydrocannabinol ( you may know it as THC ) . McKernan believes his company ’s newly unfreeze data well help shed light on some of the lesser - known cannabinoids , and maybe even give rise to some of the first truly genetically - orchestrate strains of smoke .
So when can you expect your super pot ? Well … it ’s still a little way off , Isle of Man .
So far the ship’s company has only released the raw genic sequence . That intend the hereditary data point has yet to be assembled into a tenacious , organized genome . The fact that McKernan has settle to make the data usable for destitute , however , should help hasten this process .
you could read more about the implications of grass genomics over at Nature’snews blog .
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