Mainstream news stories often mistake technology for science. Such conflation likely reflects how gizmos and knowledge, like arteries and veins, form a virtuous cycle: understanding nature requires, and refines, good tools. In genomics, that symbiosis burns brightest at Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT), the yearly nucleic acid trip in Florida, where new sequencing … Continue reading “Trends to Watch at This Year’s Big AGBT Meeting”
Author: Nathaniel Pearson
Nathaniel Pearson is Principal Genome Scientist at Ingenuity Systems,
where he and his colleagues build and apply tools that smartly interpret
human genomes, in order to help researchers understand disease, drug
response, and other phenotypes. Through computer, lab, and fieldwork with
fellow scientists -- and with genome-curious layfolk such as historian
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and rocker Ozzy Osbourne -- he has sought to cast
light on how human genetic variation reflects key aspects of our health
and history. He tweets @GenomeNathan, and blogs at Genomena.com.