tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post2294948339745625640..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Francis Collins, personalized genomic medicine, and the nature of probabilistic riskAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-43192095303447526862010-08-17T11:57:27.585-04:002010-08-17T11:57:27.585-04:00Hadn't seen it but it reveals the issue that w...Hadn't seen it but it reveals the issue that when there is a lot of money as well as credit involved, egos will be, too.<br /><br />'The' human genome sequence was a technological coup, but a mixed one involving different and partly overlapping approaches. But it was not a conceptual coup at all. 'The' sequence is not found even in a single person (it's a mix, and in any case each of us has two copies), nor was it (or is it) 100% complete. Not only is there lots of variation but some of it is very hard to sequence, etc.<br /><br />Craig Ventor is entrepreneurial as well as combative, and perhaps he could be greedy too (I don't know about that). But is a big-thinker, very smart and capable.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Sulston and Collins and in a sense those who aided their cause in the battle with Ventor, come from institutions that also had to protect their vested interests.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-43450926242266635892010-08-17T11:48:22.531-04:002010-08-17T11:48:22.531-04:00I apologize if you've already posted and comme...I apologize if you've already posted and commented on this from Venter:<br />http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,709174,00.htmloccamserasernoreply@blogger.com