OTHER CHALLENGES:Popular bioinformatics

摘要

The X prize isn't the last word on genomics competitions. Cheaper to solve than technology-based contests, bioinformatics challenges have proved hugely popular. The Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation experiment has seen the number of entrants rise every year since it was first held in 2010 (see go.nature.com/ dfcltl). And a US$l-million purse offered by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency has spurred thousands of researchers to try to identify individual organisms from mixed pools of sequenced DNA.