Contemporary Science: The Human Genome

Interview with: John Quackenbush, PhD, Professor of Computational Biology & Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Inst (DFCI); and Director, DFCI Center of Cancer Computational Biology. Dr. Quackenbush discusses the impact of the Human Genome Project on both modern medicine and modern culture. He explains how the great advances in treatment of many serious diseases depend on the technical developments for managing huge amounts of genetic data and modeling genetic mechanisms.