castanyes blaves

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12/29/2005

 
2006 perspectives in Science

My bets?

I bet there will be good advances in the massive resequencing field. Solexa is already giving a lot to talk. Other companies will tag along.

This will give a lot of power to ecology. Even if these new techniques won't allow one to control much _what_ is being (re)sequenced, they will provide a humongous amount of data to use comparatively. Comoditizing DNA data gathering for ecological studies would be great.

Ecology is a field that needs an urgent push to become a lot more important in political decisions. It already has a voice. But it hasn't penetrated George Bush's brain yet. Ok, ok, maybe that is too difficult.


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