Between Openness and Privacy in Genomics

Quickly sequencing your DNA on your mobile phone is science fiction but might not be for long-companies are already investing in the idea Genomic data are being generated at ever higher speeds: clinics, personal genomic companies like 23andme.com and ancestry.com, pharmaceutical industry labs, funding agencies, and public-private initiatives are all grappling with the implications. Genomics, along with proteomics, metabolomics, and other omics, promises, as President Obama recently put it, to give "us all access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier"