Category Archives: genomic

What about the less obvious errors?

Posted on August 27, 2009 by ben

The New Scientist points out a case of genotyping error by one of the consumer genomics companies, where a software bug caused a genotype to appear non-human. The article attempts to be reassuring: Before other deCODEme customers get too irate … Continue reading →

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Owning Genes

Posted on May 13, 2009 by ben

At some point in the history of patents, something went a little nutty: it became possible to patent genes themselves. Not “a method for extracting” a gene. Not “a method for synthesizing” a gene. But the gene itself. As a … Continue reading →

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Swine Flu Source Code

Posted on April 28, 2009 by ben

It blows my mind that, mere days after we discover this new virus, we have its source code.

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Pinker on Personal Genomics

Posted on January 13, 2009 by ben

As some folks know, I’ve spent the majority of my time over the last 1.5 year as a member of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Informatics group, thinking about security and privacy of web platforms for managing … Continue reading →

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Genomic Records & Voting

Posted on October 31, 2008 by ben

So part of my research is on voting. And another part is on the privacy of genomic medical records (which, admittedly, I haven’t spoken about much on this blog yet). It’s not often that I find an article that combines … Continue reading →

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