title: Jumping the shark.
abstract: In popular-culture, 'jumping the shark' refers to an abandoning of core values in an attempt to appeal to dwindling audiences, a metaphor that might be reasonably be applied to some areas of genomics-based research.
authors.affiliation: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. petsko@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Gregory A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Petsko
mesh_terms: D023281:Genomics; D019365:Metaphor; D017712:Peer Review, Research