Cracking the Code

摘要

The future of DNA sequencing and medicine lies at the interface between chemistry and electronics. LEE HOOD of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington is in little doubt as to the amount of information he wants to capture to be able to diagnose diseases and provide more effective treatments. "I like to go deep," he says. He wants to capture as much information as possible, as clues to the sources and treatments of disease for individuals will come from many different parts of the genome as well as information from the proteins and other substances each organ of the body produces.