If you haven't already browsed through Nature's most recent edition, do so immediately - it's packed with juicy genomic goodness.
I particularly enjoyed the brief commentaries from Francis Collins and Craig Venter, both providing retrospectives on the last decade of human genomics and predictions for the future of the field, and the neat infographic illustrating the staggering change in sequencing capacity over the last ten years - but the whole issue is well worth reading.
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The world of genomics is changing. It was initially about sequencing the genome a single representative individual from a particular species.
...that is, if you still think that a genome sequence tells all secrets about someone's success in science etc. ;-)
What happens when I mention a paper describing two more Drosophila genomes?
Genome size can be measured in a variety of ways. Classically, the haploid content of a genome was measured in picograms and represented as the C-value.
Hi Daniel,
Naturally, I'm compelled to say that Bob Weinberg's "Hypothesis First" article was my favorite. Todd's rebuttal was pretty lame--Gleevec is the first "genome-inspired medicine?" That's a strange thing to say.