DNA for Dummies? � Bio-IT World
DNA for Dummies? � Bio-IT World: "DNA for Dummies?
The journal Nature Genetics has just published a user's guide to the human genome � and none too soon. Kevin Davies reports.
Eighteen months after the simultaneous publication of public and private accounts of the human genome sequence, the journal Nature Genetics has decided to publish a supplement that, hopefully, will allow even nonspecialists access to this priceless trove of information. The introduction to A User's Guide to the Human Genome, by Harold Varmus, begins thus:
'Over the past twenty five-years, a mere sliver of recorded time, the world of biology � and indeed the world in general � has been transformed by the technical tools of a field now known as genomics ... The amount of factual knowledge has expanded so precipitously that all modern biologists using genomic methods have become dependent on computer science to store, organize, search, manipulate and retrieve the new information.' "
The journal Nature Genetics has just published a user's guide to the human genome � and none too soon. Kevin Davies reports.
Eighteen months after the simultaneous publication of public and private accounts of the human genome sequence, the journal Nature Genetics has decided to publish a supplement that, hopefully, will allow even nonspecialists access to this priceless trove of information. The introduction to A User's Guide to the Human Genome, by Harold Varmus, begins thus:
'Over the past twenty five-years, a mere sliver of recorded time, the world of biology � and indeed the world in general � has been transformed by the technical tools of a field now known as genomics ... The amount of factual knowledge has expanded so precipitously that all modern biologists using genomic methods have become dependent on computer science to store, organize, search, manipulate and retrieve the new information.' "
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