linkedin post 2013-12-04 05:57:29

HUMAN GENOME PROJECT did not anticipate either Big Data, nor Personalized Medicine driving a paradigm shift in medicine, nor epigenetics. In the moment, the excitement then was about the model of new genes leading to new disease tests which (proved to be correct). And that the discovery of a disease gene would lead to its associated protein — and thus to a new drug target (this essentially proved to be wrong). Nor did it anticipate Bioinformatics. Nor the Synthetic Biology Revolution. And the story continues to unfold. Many unanticipated consequences.

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