I went back to re-read the BBC article. They have changed it to more accurately reflect was has been anounced by Doubletwist. This goes to show you that the "general" media can hardly be relied on to accurately report on genomics...
Too many of you are relying on the media to provide you with information about this complex topic. How much do you really trust the media to grasp genomics and accurately report on it? Real life scientists can go to the Doubletwist site and uncover what's really happening here. This announcement is about ANNOTATION -- deciphering the public data and putting it in a format that is useful for life scientists. "DoubleTwist has completed an extensive analysis of the currently available Human Genome Project data, revealing genes and other valuable information." If there is another source (I mean a reasonably priced one...) for the annotated version of the publicly available HGP data I'd like to see it... Those truly interested in this news should look closely at the resources on DoubleTwist's site. Many of the questions that are being pontificated here are answered in the transcript from their press conference... Press conference trascript: http://www.doubletwist.com/info/pressarticle.jsp?i d=art122 What does it all mean? doc: http://www.doubletwist.com/info/pressarticle.jsp?i d=art121
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I went back to re-read the BBC article. They have changed it to more accurately reflect was has been anounced by Doubletwist. This goes to show you that the "general" media can hardly be relied on to accurately report on genomics...
Too many of you are relying on the media to provide you with information about this complex topic. How much do you really trust the media to grasp genomics and accurately report on it? Real life scientists can go to the Doubletwist site and uncover what's really happening here. This announcement is about ANNOTATION -- deciphering the public data and putting it in a format that is useful for life scientists. "DoubleTwist has completed an extensive analysis of the currently available Human Genome Project data, revealing genes and other valuable information." If there is another source (I mean a reasonably priced one...) for the annotated version of the publicly available HGP data I'd like to see it... Those truly interested in this news should look closely at the resources on DoubleTwist's site. Many of the questions that are being pontificated here are answered in the transcript from their press conference... Press conference trascript: http://www.doubletwist.com/info/pressarticle.jsp?i d=art122 What does it all mean? doc: http://www.doubletwist.com/info/pressarticle.jsp?i d=art121
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