> I gather that Baton Rouge already has this capability, or is working to
that end.

I should clarify the above.

In a presentation we saw last winter at Kansas City, specific patterns of
genes were compared visually on slides for similarity.  The slides
represented gene patterns, and showed dark and light coloured vertical
bands, vaguely like a UPC bar code.  The purpose was to compare or identify
specific patterns in specific areas of the slide representing a particular
bee in question, and confirm that the bee in question carried the expected
genetics -- as I understood it, anyhow.

Specific genetics can apparently be identified with reasonable certainty,
and are known to characteristic of particular strains, but, as for knowing
exactly what the patterns mean, or designing a bee from the ground up, that
is a very long way off.

allen
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