Biocode: The New Age of Genomics, by Dawn Field, Neil Davies
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Biocode: The New Age of Genomics, by Dawn Field, Neil Davies
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The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the future. The structure of DNA was identified in 1953, and the whole human genome was mapped by 2003. Since then the new field of genomics has mushroomed and is now operating on anindustrial scale. Genomes can now be sequenced rapidly and increasingly cheaply. The genomes of large numbers of organisms from mammals to microbes, have been mapped. Getting your genome sequenced is becoming affordable for many. You too can check paternity, find out where your ancestors came from, orwhether you are at risk of some diseases. Some check out the pedigree of their pets, while others turn genomes into art. A stray hair is enough to crudely reconstruct the face of the owner. From reading to constructing: the first steps to creating artificial life have already been taken. Some may find the rapidity of developments, and the potential for misuse, alarming. But they also open up unprecedented possibilities. The ability to read DNA has changed how we view ourselves and understand our place in nature. From the largest oceans, to the insides of our guts, we are able to explore the biosphere as never before, from the genome up. Sequencing technology has made the invisible world of microbes visible, and biodiversity genomics is revealing whole new worlds within us andwithout. The findings are transformational: we are all ecosystems now. Already the first efforts at 'barcoding' entire ecological communities and creating 'genomic observatories' have begun. The future, the authors argue, will involve biocoding the entire planet.
Biocode: The New Age of Genomics, by Dawn Field, Neil Davies- Amazon Sales Rank: #527014 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-26
- Released on: 2015-03-26
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Review "Breathlessly, Field and Davies survey the greatest hits and promises of genomics, including Jurassic Park-style reanimation of extinct species, the microbiome and environmental engineering. The thin chapters blurt out strings of recent findings, each capped with a crescendo of sensational speculations that mostly rehearse familiar ethical questions." --Nature
About the Author Dawn Field, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford eResearch Centre (OeRC), Oxford University,Neil Davies, Executive Director, UC Berkeley - Gump South Pacific Research StationDawn Field is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford eResearch Centre at the University of Oxford, and the Head of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Group, Biodiversity Programme, at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. She has collaborated on metagenomics studies of the 'L4 site' in the Western Channel Observatory, making it one of the best-characterized microbial communities in the world. Neil Davies lives on Moorea (sister island to Tahiti) in French Polynesia where he is the Executive Director of the University of California Berkeley's Gump South Pacific Research Station. He is the lead principal investigator of the Moorea Biocode Project, a $5m effort to sequence (DNA barcode) all non-microbial species on the island. Both are Research Associates of the Biodiversity Institute of Oxford where they are using their complementary experiences to cofound the international Genomic Observatories (GOs) Network. They have published more than 140 scientific articles (including in Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, and PNAS) and have research interests in evolution, population genetics, genomics, metagenomics, DNA barcoding, bioinformatics, biodiversity, and data sharing. Both believe strongly in the power of concerted, international community-driven scientific actions. Field is the founder of the Genomic Standards Consortium, a growing nexus point for a wide range of international projects in this domain and both serve on its Board. Together they are working to help champion the emergence of 'biodiversity genomics' as a scientific field. BIC Codes
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Rstoring my faith in the field of genomics. By Jack Anthony Gilbert Field and Davies have pulled together a solid, up-to-date, and digestible interpretation of the field of genomics. This field, which was imbued with so much promise just 10 years ago has been relegated to a 'promised to much, too soon' group; but as the authors here show, that is not necessarily the truth. The field is still bursting with speculation, innovation and exciting interactive research. I highly recommend this read for those interesting in the field, or even for those of us who would like our faith restored in the field.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I hope the writers give us more books like this! By indulgence Do not be intimidated by thinking that the book might be over your head if you are not a "science person". (The rather uninspiring cover does not help.) I found it a very interesting and exciting read because it lets you peek into the latest and future research in genomics. It is a relatively slim book, the language is very clear, the paragraphs are short. The extensive biography, footnotes and index give you enough material if you want to delve deeper into the subject. I hope the writers give us more books like this!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Beautifully written, a jewel of a book. By Ila France Porcher, Author of The Shark Sessions Biocode, by Dawn Field and Neil Davies, presents a fascinating account of the emergence and progress of the new scientific field of genomics, which maps and studies the structure, function, and evolution of the DNA (the chromosome set), of each life form. As both authors are pioneer researchers in genomics themselves, the book benefits enormously by their special insight into the significance of these discoveries, what they mean, and where they might lead.Written in a clear and quite delightful style, Biocode leads the reader quickly into the drama of how the discovery of DNA launched the new science like a rocket, and then through the ways that its findings are already affecting our lives. The many fascinating details of specific projects, which were science fiction a few short years ago, make the book impossible to put down.As computerised methods of decoding, comparing, and duplicating bits of DNA have become faster, more efficient, and more economical, genomics has been zooming ahead, with new projects multiplying as fast as its brilliant researchers could envision them. It became possible to decode the DNA not only of individuals and species, but of whole ecosystems, and the authors' own project, The Moorea Biocode Project, which identified all of the life on Moorea Island in French Polynesia, was the first. Now, researchers are tackling the inspirational project of biocoding all of the life on Earth. Sampling systems are already growing and linking together to provide a brand new type of observatory, one that looks into the vast variety of ecosystems around the planet, to decode, map, analyse and compare.Biocode holds out hope for the future, because new solutions are being found to some of the Earth's most serious problems, at the same phenomenal rate as the facts. But the really important vision this book brings, is a new way of thinking about life on earth, a perspective that reveals many ways in which our ideas about life were over-simplified, and offers unexpected new possibilities. The results are monumental. I can't go into them here. You will have to read the book!
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