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The ability to introduce targeted, tailored changes into the genomes of several species will make it feasible to ask more precise biological questions.
Verifying automated analysis methods via ground-truth data remains an essential step of algorithm development. But as datasets increase in size and complexity, this classical test is often insufficient. Integrated editing tools can help.
Commercialization of academic research is increasing and provides important benefits, but it remains difficult, and recent developments bring new challenges.
As more mouse models are produced, researchers studying neuropsychiatric diseases will need better ways to evaluate them and more realistic assessment of the results.
Meeting organizers and speakers are increasingly open to blogging and microblogging—an encouraging trend that should be expanded with clearly defined restrictions.