HGP Counterfactuals, Part 2: The Forgotten Maps

Yesterday's post explored the concept of alternative histories, or counterfactuals and laid out why they might be a useful way to think about the value of the Human Genome Project.  In this installment, I'll explore what I will call the forgotten maps, the critical elements of the HGP which are all too easily forgotten.  These were both critical and expensive components of the project, so forgetting them is a mistake.  Their prominence has faded as new technologies have come in and subsumed them, or they were mostly means to the end of a first human sequence, but understanding the project requires understanding t hese forgotten maps.  And I will admittedly cover only a few; I'd invite anyone familiar with the ones I don't illuminate to remedy my failings (a careful reading of theNature paper on the physical maps wouldn't be bad either).Read more »

Source: Omics! Omics! - November 11, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs