How Genomes Enabled Proteomics

Myrecent piece on the folly of moonshot projects caught the eye of a Silicon Valley blogger named Kumar Thangudu (@datarade), who gave me some nice praise. But along with that were some notes of his on other big science projects, and one he targeted was the Human Genome Project, with a sarcastic comment about the paucity of drugs coming from the HGP.  Them's fighting words!  So I launched a tweet stream his way outlining a number of impacts of HGP on biomedical science, and he was very nice and suggested I write more on that. I'm thinking of a number of angles on the topic, but here goes a bit of nostalgia that I think illustrates a number of points on the topic.  Except I'm first going to talk about Escherichia coli, and worse, talk about it before its genome was complete.  But that's part of the point.Read more »

Source: Omics! Omics! - October 25, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs