Twenty years of technology
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
- Corresponding author: Melissa.Moore{at}umassmed.edu
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
In looking back at previous issues of RNA and my own eight RNA papers, what strikes me, in addition to all the great science that's been published in our society journal over the past 20 years, is the evolution (or more properly, revolution!) in the methods and technologies we use. Equally striking has been the exponential increase in the amount of data in each published paper. In two decades, post-transcriptional gene regulation has evolved from a mostly qualitative science into a highly quantitative one. We've gone from spending most of our time just trying to get one experiment at the bench to work to now spending months puzzling over massive datasets generated by high throughput instruments in research cores. As I look to the future, I wonder about the technologies yet to come, how we can possibly deal with the ever increasing size of our datasets, and what will constitute …
