Editing Information Age (section)

===Genetic information===
Genetic code may also be considered part of the [[information revolution]]. Now that sequencing has been computerized, [[genome]] can be rendered and manipulated as data. This started with [[DNA sequencing]], invented by [[Walter Gilbert]] and [[Allan Maxam]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Maxam |first1=A M |last2=Gilbert |first2=W |title=A new method for sequencing DNA. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=February 1977 |volume=74 |issue=2 |pages=560–564 |doi=10.1073/pnas.74.2.560|pmc=392330 }}</ref> in 1976–1977 and [[Frederick Sanger]] in 1977, grew steadily with the [[Human Genome Project]], initially conceived by Gilbert and finally, the practical applications of sequencing, such as [[Genetic testing|gene testing]], after the discovery by [[Myriad Genetics]] of the [[BRCA1]] breast cancer gene mutation. Sequence data in [[GenBank]] has grown from the 606 genome sequences registered in December 1982 to the 231&nbsp;million genomes in August 2021. An additional 13&nbsp;trillion incomplete sequences are registered in the [[Shotgun sequencing|Whole Genome Shotgun]] submission database as of August 2021. The information contained in these registered sequences has doubled every 18 months.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Lathe III|first1=Warren C.|last2=Williams|first2=Jennifer M.|last3=Mangan|first3=Mary E.|last4=Karolchik|first4=Donna|date=2008|title=Genomic Data Resources: Challenges and Promises|url=https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genomic-data-resources-challenges-and-promises-743721/|website=Nature Education|access-date=2021-12-05|archive-date=2021-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206030141/https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genomic-data-resources-challenges-and-promises-743721/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{original research inline|date=May 2025|reason=The cited source is from 2008 for claims about 2021, and doesn't directly support many of these details}}