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Nature 416, 256-257 (21 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416256a

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Postgenomics: Harvard's melting pot

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At a new genomics centre, ethologists are rubbing shoulders with computer scientists, chemists and mathematicians. Peter Aldhous visits a bold experiment in multidisciplinarity.

Andrew Murray is used to standing out from the crowd. In the early 1990s, while rising though the academic ranks at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), his eye-catching array of facial piercings made him an instantly recognizable figure on campus.