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After I published Rebel Code in 2001, there was a natural instinct to think about writing another book (a natural masochistic instinct, I s...

One of the reasons I wrote my book Digital Code of Life was that the battle between the public Human Genome Project and the privately-funde...

In Digital Code of Life , I explained at length - some would say at excessive length - how the Human Genome Project was a key early demonstr...

I wrote about this in Digital Code of Life , four years ago: The Switzerland-based company says they can use a $199 DNA test (compare to $1...

I first came across proposals for the the UK Biobank when I was writing Digital Code of Life in 2004. It's an exciting idea : UK Biob...

Last night I had the pleasure - and privilege - of attempting to hack the minds of a roomful of young scientists. It was my usual Digital C...

One of Larry Lessig's favourite tropes is that we live in a read-write world these days, where creation is just as important as consump...

When I was writing Digital Code of Life , I sought to be scrupulously fair to Craig Venter, who was often demonised for his commercial appro...

23andMe is a privately held company developing new ways to help you make sense of your own genetic information. Even though your body contai...

On Saturday I attended the Open Knowledge 1.0 meeting, which was highly enjoyable from many points of view. The location was atmospheric: ...

Because of this : (1) Deciphering the sequence of the human genome and other advances in genetics open major new opportunities ...

One of the fun aspects of writing my book Digital Code of Life was grappling with all the 'omics: not just genomics, but proteomics and...

I've not really been paying much attention to the Google Book Search saga. Essentially, I'm totally in favour or what they're ...

Carl Zimmer is one of the best science writers around today. He manages to combine technical accuracy with a writing style that never gets ...

One of the fascinating things that I learned when I was writing Digital Code of Life is that many diseases - such as obesity, heart disease...

My book Digital Code of Life was partly about the battle to keep genomic and other bioinformatics information open. So it's good to se...

For all its patent faults, Amazon.com is one of my favourite sites. It has repeatedly done the right thing when mistakes have been made wit...

I came across this story about Google winning an award as part of the "Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy" taking part in the suit...

Today's Guardian has a fine piece by Charles Arthur and Michael Cross about making data paid for by the UK public freely accessible by...