Edited by: Steve Bunk and Eugene Russo
G. Lennon, C. Auffray, M. Polymeropoulos, M.B. Soares, "The I.M.A.G.E. Consortium: An Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and Their Expression," Genomics, 33:151-2, 1996. (Cited in more than 290 papers since publication)

Comments by Greg Lennon, chief scientific officer at Gene Logic in Gaithersburg, Md.

If there were a Book of Genesis for genetics, perhaps it would begin with Data, that begets Information, that begets Knowledge, that begets those salutary twins Therapy and Prevention. Such a book would be written by thousands of scribes, in hundreds of journals, over scores of years. How much more remarkable it is, then, that just four scientists with varying skills in the same field could have pooled their talents to make a worldwide impact on the course of genetic data-gathering.


(L to R) M. Bento Soares, Mihael Polymeropoulos, Charles Auffray, Greg Lennon
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