He spoke to Bioscan while preparing a presentation to raise federal funding for this project. Toronto is always moving and expanding in terms of research facilities. Our hospital alone has expanded tremendously from just genetics research. We now have a genome center and we have been able to attract a lot of money from outside and build the country's largest computing center related to genomics and bioinformatics. Right now, a major portion of it is genomics, but in the future we will move into other types of computational biology.
Genomics is an entirely different approach to science.
In terms of biological science, initially you have a hunch or a hypothesis and then try to prove it. In genomics, the information is there, you just have to dig for it. Genomics is really the basic building block of biotechnology. Recombinant DNA is still an important part of biotechnology, and this is based on cloned genes. From there you manipulate it, and put it into different organisms.