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dividuality—how we match ourselves up against that norm. The vast
amounts of data produced by personal genomics would and will be
meaningless without the tools of bioinformatic management and inter-
pretation. Genomes would be nothing but a long, disordered string of
As, Gs, Ts, and Cs—sequence “out of sequence.” But the statistical tech-
niques of bioinformatics allow biologists to bring order to these data,
to reconstruct “out of sequence” an object that has biological, medical
and social meaning.
