Death By Ignorance

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Breaking news: Bill Gates has done it again! The infamous technology mogul, Bill Gates, has been working out of his manor to create the next big Internet sensation and boy as he went above and beyond what anyone could have expected. Gates and his team of web designers have created a dating site that is guaranteed to find the mate that nature has designed just for you. The new creation sensation is called genematch.com.
Genematch.com is a genetic compatibility dating service that uses a user’s DNA sequence to choose a mate whose DNA sequence closely resembles theirs. The website ranks a user’s potential mates based on how similar their DNA sequences are. The more DNA shared by the users, the more compatible they are. To get an account started, a user must first send a piece of hair to the genematch corporation headquarters for DNA sequencing. The user’s DNA is obtained from the hair sample and sequenced using shotgun sequencing. Shotgun sequencing is a version of DNA sequencing that involves analyzing the genome in sections. The DNA is broken into random segments and sequenced using chain termination to produce reads. Repeating several rounds of fragmentation and sequencing creates multiple overlapping reads for the DNA. The overlapping reads are then assembled through the use of the overlapping ends into a continuous sequence by a computer program (Weber and Myers). Once the computer program has finished sequencing the DNA, the DNA sequence can be uploaded to the user’s account and the user can begin searching for their soul mate.

Even though genematch.com seems like a great way to meet a soul mate, not everyone is ready to partake in the festivities. Critics around the world have not been hesitant about discussing their feeli...

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.... Susie went on to explain to John how its funny that he had won the battle, but yet still couldn’t be happy until he won the war. She laughed deeply and said to John that no matter what he did, she will always in the end have the last laugh. He asked her how it was possible for her to have the last laugh when she was dying and he wasn’t. She looked him in the eyes and asked him if he ever looked at his genome. John smiled and told her that he never really had time to get to it. Susie than said, “Do you remembered how we met?” John laughed and responded, “We met on that stupid dating site genematch.com remember, I was your number one match.” Susie grinned and whispered to John that is why you can never win. John replied, “I don’t get it.” With her last breath, Susie whisper, “Don’t worry I will see you soon and then I can personally tell you why you didn’t win.”

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