 In what follows we will treat the HGP as a pivot around which genomics developed as a field of research and as a set of techniques. For ease of exposition we will talk here of a pre-HGP and a post-HGP phase. Obviously, this is a simplification; there is not just one single trajectory along which the story of genomics runs and there is not one clear break between a pre- and a post-genome era (Richardson &amp; Stevens 2015). Nevertheless, as a way of structuring the discussion this distinction will be a helpful tool.