Genomics and inductive reasoning: Revolution, renaissance, or rhetoric?

The Complex Systems Approach: Rhetoric or Revolution

The complex systems approach (CSA) to characterizing cognitive function is purported to underlie a conceptual and methodological revolution by its proponents. I examine one central claim from each of the contributed papers and argue that the provided examples do not justify calls for radical change in how we do cognitive science. Instead, I note how currently available approaches in ''standard'...

Revolution and renaissance.

The genomics revolution and radiotherapy.

The expansion of our knowledge through the Human Genome Project has been accompanied by the development of new high-throughput techniques, which provide extensive capabilities for the analysis of a large number of genes or the whole genome. These assays can be carried out in various clinical samples at the DNA (genome), RNA (transcriptome) or protein (proteome) level. There is a belief that thi...

Big data or bust: realizing the microbial genomics revolution

Pathogen genomics has the potential to transform the clinical and public health management of infectious diseases through improved diagnosis, detection and tracking of antimicrobial resistance and outbreak control. However, the wide-ranging benefits of this technology can only fully be realized through the timely collation, integration and sharing of genomic and clinical/epidemiological metadat...

Genomics in permanent revolution

John Sulston, who coordinated the UK side of the international publicly funded efforts to sequence ‘the’ human genome, once said the endeavour was like a moon shot. He may only have referred to the scale and ambition of the project, but one could argue that, in both cases, outdated technology and extraordinary amounts of money were used to hit a highly visible and prestigious target, just to sh...