Comments on: Common people http://genomeboy.com/2007/10/18/common-people/ Thu, 17 May 2012 21:04:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: misha http://genomeboy.com/2007/10/18/common-people/#comment-107 misha Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:36:57 +0000 http://genomeboy.com/2007/10/18/common-people/#comment-107 I couldn't agree more, Keith. Why not an X Prize for the Jim Kent of the genomic data repository? The multiple vendor idea is intriguing, too. It reminds me of lendingtree.com's tagline: "When banks compete, you win." I couldn’t agree more, Keith. Why not an X Prize for the Jim Kent of the genomic data repository? The multiple vendor idea is intriguing, too. It reminds me of lendingtree.com’s tagline: “When banks compete, you win.”

]]> By: Keith Robison http://genomeboy.com/2007/10/18/common-people/#comment-106 Keith Robison Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:25:57 +0000 http://genomeboy.com/2007/10/18/common-people/#comment-106 I'm not surprised Steve came up with the idea, and I've toyed with describing a similar concept on my blog. It's an interesting challenge, and I'm sure there will be many who would take up the task. It would be particularly interesting if a lot of the central pieces could be standardized so that it would be easy to have your DNA analyzed by many different vendors & the results compared -- perhaps instead of trusting one vendor you might get a consensus. Done well, such a framework would (IMHO) greatly stimulate both industry and academia, as we might actually (dare we dream?) have lots of tools which can talk to one another, rather than a horrendous thicket of incompatible formats, most of which differ in trivial but burdensome ways. <a href="http://sciencecommons.org" rel="nofollow">Science Commons</a> would also seem a natural organization to participate in such an effort. I’m not surprised Steve came up with the idea, and I’ve toyed with describing a similar concept on my blog.

It’s an interesting challenge, and I’m sure there will be many who would take up the task. It would be particularly interesting if a lot of the central pieces could be standardized so that it would be easy to have your DNA analyzed by many different vendors & the results compared — perhaps instead of trusting one vendor you might get a consensus.

Done well, such a framework would (IMHO) greatly stimulate both industry and academia, as we might actually (dare we dream?) have lots of tools which can talk to one another, rather than a horrendous thicket of incompatible formats, most of which differ in trivial but burdensome ways.

Science Commons would also seem a natural organization to participate in such an effort.

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