George Church, professor of genetics at the Harvard Medical School and a pioneer of genomics. (Credit: Mark Ostow.)

The genomic revolution is being driven by advances in analytical and computational techniques, and George Church has been behind many of them. Starting in the late 1970s, Church helped create the tools, including early software and protocols for DNA sequencing, that eventually made possible the Human Genome Project.

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