C. Brandon Ogbanu in Undark Magazine:
As 2025 approaches, we can expect the silver anniversary announcements on the completion of a draft of the human genome to be on their way. Many of the people who were involved are still alive and well known. Because of this, we will likely hear reflections from an ensemble cast of characters associated with the 2000 announcement, and those whose more contemporary work is linked to the study of genomes: J. Craig Venter, Francis Collins, Jennifer Doudna, and others. We have entered what can be called a “post-genomic” age, where the biological sciences build on our understanding, developed over the past quarter-century, moving us towards the next generation of discoveries in various subfields of biology.
What work is “post” doing in “post-genomic?” One dictionary definition offers that “post” can be used as “a prefix, meaning ‘behind,’ ‘after,’ ‘later,’ ‘subsequent to,’ ‘posterior to.’” Its use in “post-genomic” does not indicate a world without genomics, but rather a scientific world where we take genomics for granted and it is no longer the bottleneck in understanding biological systems at the molecular level.
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