Interesting link: you can download a giraffe genome
I was turning the phrase "giraffe genome" over in my head because of the way it sounds. Jirrafe Jeenome. Lovely. Your lips work overtime to say that one.
Then I wondered: Can you download a giraffe genome?
You can. This NIH site will give you five different giraffes to choose from. The genomes contain multiple different datasets describing the giraffe DNA, and you can inspect some metadata for each genome as well, including some information about who researched the genome, what paper it was published alongside, and more.
This is one of the least-useful or accessible "interesting links" I have ever bothered to put out there, but it did make me realize that I could download a JSON report of a giraffe genome and use it for... something, I guess. Maybe a game jam? It would be pretty funny to use a JSON report about an animal's genome as an element in a game.
I have assumed for a while that it was possible to go online and just get some, you know, genomes, because I know that government money has been used to collect a lot of this information, so it seemed likely to me that some of it was public. It is! You can use the link at the top of the page to find some other genomes. But if you really needed any genomes, you certainly already knew that this site existed.
It might be fun for me to create a reason to need genomes, however. Manufacture some genome demand in my life. There are 1596 human genomes available in that NIH library. There are 10 gerbils. There is only one ocean sunfish (mola) in the entire library.
All of this is vaguely interesting to me, but useless. Perhaps the best kind of thing to find on the internet...