{"id":1717,"date":"2009-04-21T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/04\/21\/gene_trek_tng\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:05:06","slug":"gene_trek_tng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/04\/21\/gene_trek_tng\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene trek: TNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The problem:<\/strong><br \/>\nIf a technology described as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v5\/n1\/full\/nmeth1156.html\">next-generation sequencing<\/a> is being published in multiple papers per month, then surely it is no longer &#8220;next generation&#8221; but &#8220;current generation&#8221;.<br \/>\nWhat horrors will be spawned by future advances in sequencing technology?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Next-next-generation sequencing? <\/li>\n<li>Yet-another-generation DNA sequencing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sequencing: the wrath of Sanger?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The solution:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn order to avoid an intractably messy literature, how about assigning clearly defined generation numbers, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/3G\">the cell phone industry have done?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem: If a technology described as next-generation sequencing is being published in multiple papers per month, then surely it is no longer &#8220;next generation&#8221; but &#8220;current generation&#8221;. What horrors will be spawned by future advances in sequencing technology? Next-next-generation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/04\/21\/gene_trek_tng\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}