title: The failure of genomics in biology.
abstract: We live in the age of genomics and have discovered hundreds of thousands of genes of which we understand almost nothing: genomics has failed biology. We need to understand what genes do, something that we have stopped studying. Parasites are different from free-living species, and so they will have genes with novel functions, which we will only discover by studying this directly, not by doing genomics.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK. Electronic address: Mark.Viney@bristol.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Viney
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001695:Biology / Q000592:standards*; D023281:Genomics / Q000592:standards*; D010271:Parasites / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
keywords: genomics; knock-out; parasites