{"id":810,"date":"2007-03-30T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/03\/30\/anticipating-trouble\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T12:22:57","slug":"anticipating-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/anticipating-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipating trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/summary\/315\/5820\/1780\">Science<\/a> magazine today reports another ego trip.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA U.S. company [454] has begun to trickle out information on a unique DNA study it calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Project Jim,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a crash effort to sequence the entire genome of a single individual. The results are likely to be made public this summer. Anonymity is out of the question: It has already been announced that the genome belongs to James D. Watson, winner of the Nobel Prize and co-discoverer of DNA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s structure. Watson won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be alone: Harvard Medical School has approved a plan by computational geneticist George Church to sequence and make public the genomes of well-informed volunteers\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding his own. And J. Craig Venter says his nonprofit institute will soon release a complete version of his genome.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomeweb.com\/issues\/news\/139189-1.html\">newsletter<\/a> says that Roche is going to acquire 454 for $155M and plans to use the sequencer for IVD applications, I hope they will forget &#8220;Project Jim&#8221; somewhere on a harddisk.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science magazine today reports another ego trip. A U.S. company [454] has begun to trickle out information on a unique DNA study it calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Project Jim,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a crash effort to sequence the entire genome of a single individual. The results are likely to be made public this summer. Anonymity is out of the question: It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/anticipating-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anticipating trouble<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,2945],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-ethics-law","tag-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}