Archive for December 2nd, 2009

December 2, 2009

Has our quest for completeness made things too complicated?

In my opinion, yes. Let me elaborate.

My current job is very much focused on “data integration”. What this means is that we have a large amount of diverse data from different “-omics” experiments: microarrays, protein mass spectrometry, DNA sequencing – really, whatever you like, but it’s all aimed at answering the same question. Namely: which of these biological entities (transcripts, proteins, metabolites) are markers for various human disease states?
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