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title: "4 Genomes Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddhartha-mukherjee/mutants-are-necessary-to-maintain-the-essence-of-our-selves-our/)

[Siddhartha Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siddhartha-mukherjee/)

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> [“The Towner paper contained a very interesting statement, as an aside, concerning the five ebolaviruses: “Viruses of each species have genomes that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-quammen/the-towner-paper-contained-a-very-interesting-statement-as-an-aside/)

[David Quammen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-quammen/)

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> [“Databases, ontologies, and visual representations tie informatic genomes to the specific practices of computers, computational biology, and bioinformatics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/databases-ontologies-and-visual-representations-tie-informatic/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-thomas/we-carry-stores-of-dna-in-our-nuclei-that-may-have-come-in-at-one/)

[Lewis Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-thomas/)

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