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DTA GVeiw is a
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in which
genome A genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as ...
s of several
organism An organism is any life, living thing that functions as an individual. Such a definition raises more problems than it solves, not least because the concept of an individual is also difficult. Many criteria, few of them widely accepted, have be ...
s can be pulled up on the program to immediately show a list of known genes and where they are located in the genome. It has been referred to as a "
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" of genomes.


Purpose

The purpose of DTA GVeiw is to collect
data Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted for ...
of organisms, in the hope of one day engineering microbial organisms to help make mars a suitable place for life.
DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Adva ...
, the creator of DTA GVeiw, Hopes one day they will be enabled to "pick and choose" desired
gene In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcribed to produce a functional RNA. There are two types of molecular genes: protei ...
s to create new organisms capable of living on a foreign planet.


References

Terraforming Genetic engineering Bioinformatics software {{Astrobiology-stub