"As i have argued, data generation without big questions and computational approaches capable of answering them is only of trivial value. My team now has continued to apply the random selection and shotgun sequencing methods as a major discovery engine, exploring environmental research through "metagenomic studies," investigating life in the Sargasso Sea and also in the human gut."
"Charles Darwin started out observing and collecting species and specimens and only decades later provided unifying principals to explain what he witnessed."
Craig Venter is a personal hero and he very well might change the world. I wonder if this approach has applications to life in general and not just scientific inquiry. Curiosity, new experiences, travel, and gathering new ideas and information are already ways to a richer happier life(IMHO). But it seems like they might also be the foundation for positive human change and advancement. The best ideas can connect disparate things and make them seem clear and simple. My late new years resolution is to be a sponge. Now, how to simultaneously filter and be a sponge? What standards should be used to keep out the superfluous and useless ideas and information? Are appropriate big questions a starting point?
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