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Sunday, June 10, 2007

The Genographic Project

Journal Entry #4

The Genographic Project involves a large amount of global research, so the scientific and technological advances are necessary to accomplish the Genographic Project. Some advances that are necessary are software technologies that deploy new customized data. According to IBM, the software technologies revolutionizes the geneticists’ ability to collect, manage, store and securely transmit background data. It helps scientists to gather information in remote locations and so that multiple languages and regions will be acknowledged in helping to conduct research.
Indigenous groups are very important to the Genographic Project because the project focuses on gathering information from these groups. Without the participation from indigenous groups, the project cannot fully achieve the research needed and cannot obtain proper results. The research needed for the Genographic Project revolves around gathering information from indigenous groups, since they have lived in their cultural lands and maintained their heritage throughout the years. Thus providing key information in developing indicators of migratory patterns. Since the migratory patterns play a key role for the project because it aims to solve the mysteries behind the human race traced to starting out in Africa and how exactly the human race got to the other sides of the world. It focuses on how culture impacted our genetic variation, and since not much is known about those topics, the information gathered from indigenous groups help to provide research towards answering those mysteries.
Researchers could not have accomplished this project 100 years ago, 50 years ago or even 25 years ago. Scientists were not familiar to the language of DNA and genetics, it was only familiar among some scientists. However as compared to today, more and more scientists are becoming more and more familiar with the study of DNA and genetics, which in return will ensure a higher chance of accomplishing this project. Timing poses great importance to the Genographic project because if the project was done earlier in time, most likely the results achieved now would not have been the same as before. Most of the scientists 100 years ago, 50 years ago or even 25 years ago may not have known how to analyze the information gathered or how to even formulate the project’s research since not many scientists were familiar with the study. Timing is also very important to the project because the project is planned to be a five-year effort, so all information must be gathered within the time frame and genotype of at least 100,000 indigenous people must be collected.

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