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Published online 5 November 2008 | Nature 456, 26-28 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456026a
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Personal genomes: A disruptive personality, disrupted
Eric Schadt revels in making people uncomfortable with his science. Bryn Nelson reports how the bioinformatics rabble-rouser hopes to charge ahead in the face of his company's disintegration.
In need of an escape from the mental gymnastics of hardcore genome analysis, Eric Schadt, executive scientific director of research genetics for Rosetta Inpharmatics, is clear about what works for him — careering down a steep mountainside on a snowboard. "You can't sort of ease your way down a hill," he says over breakfast near the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
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Sooner we as a community accept it (the complexity of systems and networks as most natural and hence potentially most rewarding in understanding diseases and improving therapy) the better.