The final third of the book is devoted to bioinformatics. There are data-bases, search engines, analytical tools, and free downloads on the Web. All of these tools help perform the massive comparisons and cataloguing needed to keep track of research results. Searching these data-bases is just as important as the laboratory work, because genetic sequences only make sense within the encompassing molecular context. This book is available in Canada through DNA Sequencing Interpreting the Results Mapping the Human Genome is only the beginning of applied genetics.
Genes provide the instructions for cells to build the proteins that make life possible.
Even though we have mapped human DNA, we still don't know which genes produce which proteins. So the next challenge is proteomics, the cataloguing of protein structure and function. We certainly can't predict most of human characteristics or behaviour yet. You only have to read Alphey's book to see why. Yet far too many people are trying to attribute both virtues and vices to genes.