The Current Status of Ewert's Dependency Graph of Life

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@T_aquaticus

The problem with Ewert’s work is that it ignores the sequence data. He simply looked at the distribution of proteins with a given function, but he wasn’t able to explain why the sequences of those genes produced a nested hierarchy. On top of that, Ewert’s claims relied heavily on the accuracy and thoroughness of gene annotation which really can’t be relied on.

That is entirely correct. @DaleCutler, this is exactly what @Winston_Ewert agreed with when he was here. Did you read our exchange on this? (Winston Ewert: The Dependency Graph of Life). We are still waiting for him to do the next set of analysis and get back to us. I think it will take him some time.