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The failure of genomics in biology

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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 7, Pages 319-321

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2014.04.010

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genomics; parasites; knock-out

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  1. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
  2. Wellcome Trust

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We live in the age of genomics and have discovered hundreds of thousands of genes of which we understand almost nothing: genomics has failed biology. We need to understand what genes do, something that we have stopped studying. Parasites are different from free-living species, and so they will have genes with novel functions, which we will only discover by studying this directly, not by doing genomics.

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