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Neil Davies is the Director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Gump South Pacific Research Station in Moorea, French Polynesia, focusing on biodiversity and ecosystem research.
Known for: Biocode: The New Age of Genomics
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Biocode: The New Age of Genomics
Biocode: The New Age of Genomics explores the emerging field of genomics and the global effort to read, map, and understand the DNA of all living things. The authors describe how advances in sequencing technology are transforming biology, ecology, and medicine, and how the concept of a 'biocode'—the sum of all DNA on Earth—offers a new way to view life and biodiversity.
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From DNA Discovery to the Dawn of Genomics
Every revolution begins with a simple idea. For biology, that idea was that life’s secret lies in molecules. The story starts in the mid-20th century when James Watson and Francis Crick unveiled DNA’s double-helical structure, revealing how information could be passed on from generation to generatio...
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From Human Genes to Environmental Genomes
The human genome was only the beginning. Once we could read human DNA, a natural next step was to ask: what about the countless nonhuman lives that share this planet? Here the field of environmental genomics emerged. Instead of isolating and culturing individual species, we began extracting DNA dire...
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About Neil Davies
Neil Davies is the Director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Gump South Pacific Research Station in Moorea, French Polynesia, focusing on biodiversity and ecosystem research.
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