How big does big genetics need to be?
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Is universal health care a prerequisite for understanding the genetic basis of disease?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 1:30 PM • 6 Comments •
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Daniel MacArthur
I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation, and the companies trying to sell you information about your genome.
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To the barricades in defence of Big Genetics
Category: big genetics
Over at Gene Expression, p-ter has a post up defending the "big genetics" approach, noting that large-scale hypothesis-free genetics studies have consistently yielded important results for follow-up detailed fine-scale studies.It's a sound argument. I've argued in the past that many...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 6:00 AM • 8 Comments •
Why the double standard on genomic data release policies?
Category: big genetics
Currently large genome sequencing centres are obliged to release their sequence data as soon as possible, while smaller research groups are permitted to hold on to their data until publication. Is this double standard sustainable in an era where a single sequencing machine can produce data faster than the entire Human Genome Project?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 8:00 AM • •
Small delays due to Big Genetics
Category: 1000 genomes project
The 1000 Genomes Project will provide an incredible resource for the genetics community - but how many research projects are being put on hold while the data is being generated?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 8:45 AM • 4 Comments •
The promise and challenges of Big Genetics
Category: big genetics
Big Science has now become a regular feature of the human genetics landscape, and it's here to stay - but that doesn't mean the extinction of small-scale research.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments •
HapMap phase 3 data available for browsing
Category: big genetics
This will probably only be of interest to population genetics afficianados, but I just noticed that the HapMap project has made its phase 3 data available through its browser (the data were previously available for download, but are much...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:10 AM • 1 Comments •
Oh shit, that's 320 terabytes! Dealing with data in a high-throughput age
Category: big genetics
Nature News has a special feature on "big data" - a broad look at the demands of the brave new world of massively high-throughput data generation, and the solutions adopted by research institutes and corporations to deal with those demands....
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:39 AM • 5 Comments •
