This achievement has been compared to a Martian acquiring a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare-we are only now starting to decipher the text letter by letter, and are still far away from recognizing the words, paragraphs and story lines, and further still from understanding the meaning of the entire book.
有人比喻，去年英美發佈轟動全球的基因定序草圖，就像買了一套莎士比亞全集，才開始辨認一個個字母，至於距離組合單字、段落、故事，再去瞭解全書意義，還有一段十分遙遠的路途。