At the recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology in Marco Island, Florida, the focus was on the new, low-end machines like MiSeq and the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine, which was the subject of this Forbes cover story.
Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).
He said Gore had a keen grasp of emerging issues including technology, the science of the human genome, global warming, and privacy.
Using the latest sequencing technology as well as the data available from the Human Genome Project, Celera scientists had created a working draft of the genome.
FORBES: Why I Believe That This Will Be The Most Innovative Decade In History
The genome has been sequenced several times over, and we have the technology to synthesize parts of the virus if we really need it for vaccine design.
Additionally, in order to reduce the time to develop and deploy advanced materials, a Materials Genome Initiative is being launched today, and the National Science and Technology Council has released a white paper on that effort.
WHITEHOUSE: Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing
The M.mycoides genome contains over a million letters of genetic code and current DNA-technology can string-together perhaps a few thousand units in one go.
The early DNA sequencers that were used in the Human Genome Project started out at Perkin-Elmer before a restructuring made the technology part of a separate company.
As another example, Venter points to Eric Lander , who heads the Genome Center at the Whitehead Institute (affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and is often seen as Venter's chief rival.
While GSK's partner Human Genome Sciences invented the drug, Glaxo invested in HGS' gene-hunting technology back in 1993 and stayed the course even after murky early results.
In the issue of Nature that also contains the Human Genome Project's paper on the genome, a team of Rosetta scientists outlined how they refocused the company's technology to figure out whether DNA sequences constitute complete genes.
The first draft has been completed years ahead of schedule thanks to the introduction of new robotic technology and the competition sparked by Celera and its alternative method of sequencing the genome.
Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.
"That is a million times more connections than the genome has letters of DNA, " said computational neuroscientist Sebastian Seung at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is developing ways to automate the mapping of individual synapses.
The New York Genome Center was one of seven qualifying entrants to a city competition for funding and land to create a technology campus on Roosevelt Island.
He has moved to embrace new gene-deciphering technology as one of the PGP-10 the first ten participants in the Personal Genome Project being run by Harvard Professor George Church.
But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.
应用推荐