by S. Mar­vin Fried­man — Is the cur­rent pre­oc­cu­pa­tion of the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity with se­quenc­ing every genome ex­tant merely an ex­er­cise in pro­vid­ing data­bases for Gen­Bank? Cer­tainly not, for this in­for­ma­tion also re­veals very im­por­tant char­ac­ter­is­tics of the or­gan­ism un­der analy­sis. For ex­am­ple, we are at the early stages of a med­ical rev­o­lu­tion that will see af­ford­able…