Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
Well now! I think it would be awesome if someone mapped the snake genome (?) It sure as heck would make things easier to understand! Like with rats, they are so studied, and there is a lot of literature on what certain genes and their modifiers do, and what happens when they dont get where they're going and it creates certain colors and patterns when you do this because of that. I think it would clear a lot of stuff up. Just something to chew on.
It took 16 years and $3 billion to finish sequencing the human genome. And nearly 10% of human DNA were never studied (Heterochromatin).

As for a "snake genome" that isn't really possible. Every species has different (sometimes significantly) DNA, so genome mapping would be required for each species. While I'm sure there will be more scientific study of ball pythons in the future, a map of the bp genome isn't forthcoming in our lifetime.