The New Genomics: Global Views of Biology

Abstract

What will happen after a complete sequence of the human genome is available? Eric Lander argues that it will be the beginning of a new phase of research. He presents 10 goals for the future that are related to a global view of biology. The author is at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.