Yuk yuk...
Forget about the genome in today's Nature, the other articles of the special chimp issue seem a lot more interesting than the n-th partial sequencing of another mammal. The real question to me is whether we have improved the gene finding in mammalian genomes. Not that I think that the work is insignificant - but the findings in the genome papers always disappoint. We know the genome so well, what novelties are left to discover?
Btw, check this large scale clinical systems biology experiment from the Advance Online Publication pages.
Btw, check this large scale clinical systems biology experiment from the Advance Online Publication pages.
spitshine - 2005-08-31 21:28
Data needs questions
It often seems that a few standard types of analyses are run, findings reported and then...that's all you hear from that genome.
My feeling is that people are not sure what to do with genome data. It's great that we have so much information, but that's only half the battle. What we need are interesting biological questions, particularly in comparative genomics. Perhaps many people have yet to develop the ability to formulate large scale, sophisticated queries of that kind.
Getting scooped on chimp?
The value of the genome sequence itself is out of questions; lets hope they receive the funding to finish as many as possible.