Re: investment in bioinformatics

From: James Swayze (swayzej@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 02:45:32 MST


Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> It occurred to me that the tremendous flood of data arising out of the
> analysis of the human and other genomes will present a huge data analysis
> challenge. Just as software was the opportunity recognized and seized upon
> by Bill Gates, so to the analysis of the genomic data will be the crucial
> bridge between the new knowledge and its application. Bioinformatics is a
> term applied to the extraction of usable information from the raw genomic
> data. A list of Bioinformatics companies can be found at:
>
> http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/CCP11/companies_other.txt.html#119
>
> and I'm wondering how--for the purposes of identifying the best investment
> candidates-- to mine this resource for the rising stars in the field.
>
> Anyone care to suggest how to go about this?

I posted this but it might have gotten lost since I mistakenly "sent" the page
rather than cut/paste the url. Here it is again. Just a news story about the
genome people wondering what now to do with the data.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34436,00.html

James

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"Quod de futuris non est determinata omnino veritas"
			    NOSTRADAMUS 15TH Century



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