Carl Zimmer interviews Craig Venter (video). They're talking most genomics and creating life from "scratch." Also, Esther Dyson talks about the personal genome.
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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.