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To: Solon who wrote (11698)	12/30/2010 6:04:41 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"were in hyperwarp" ... The metaphor to space travel is apt imo. Putting someone in orbit is feasible but irreducibly expensive until a "next" ascent-to-orbit technology comes along. Genomics is similarly expensive, but there are still ecomomies that can be exploited by developing that technology. Cool link about the Chinese - their "thousand-genome project" is a step in the right direction imo. Decoding a genome is somewhat cool, but until we've decoded very many and can assign the differences to phenotypic differences (phenotype being the physical trait encoded by a gene) it's a bit of a lark. So just as hyperwarp suggests space travel being a routine commodity, the genomic equivalent (routine sequencing for medical diagnosis?) is just as much of a pipedream.