Genome Biology publishes commentaries on a broad range of topics, including political, scientific, and medical issues relating to genomic, post-genomic and genome-scale analyses. Readers will be encouraged to participate in discussions and to comment on articles via the website. Most comment articles will be commissioned, so as to ensure a comprehensive and systematic coverage, but you are encouraged to send suggestions to the editors.

Comment   

(30 April 2008)

Science is essential to the economic future and national security. The next US President needs to understand the importance of science, communicate that to the public, and use scientific information properly.

Comment   

(31 March 2008)

In the age of genomics, when biology is becoming more quantitative and depending more on new techniques and tools that must come from the physical sciences most biologists can't understand chemists and physicists and hardly any chemists and physicists know what to make of the typical biology seminar.

Comment   

(29 February 2008)

Nothing holds science back longer than clinging to what should not be clung to, and all too often its fear, fear of the consequences of having made a mistake, that keeps ideas around long past their expiration date.

Comment   

(31 January 2008)

The closer we get to post-educational employment, the smaller the percentage of women at every stage. Where do all the talented and accomplished women go?

Comment   

(28 December 2007)

It becomes imperative that our doctors bring to the practice of medicine a true scientific perspective; it may be just as important that those of us doing biomedical research try to learn more of what doctors know.

Comment   

(30 November 2007)

Our status as genome biologists gives us both ammunition and a powerful line of attack when we are confronted with ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry.

Opinion   

(2 November 2007)

Better methods of statistical analysis could make large-scale protein-interaction data more useful.

Comment   

(2 November 2007)

The new science geo-engineering doesn't try to alter a few corn plants; it aims to tinker with the entire planet, based on the notion that ultimately we can actively manipulate the planet to have any climate pattern we want. But there is no way we can ever assess all of the likely consequences.