Question: Why Genetics? Pardis Sabeti: Well, genetics is kind of
like that perfect balance between math and biology so- It’s so--
It’s understanding the natural world and these principles going
on in it but using a mathematical framework in order to
understand the process so it’s for me perfect. It’s exactly the
kinds of problems I like to think about. Question: How have you
changed the field? Pardis Sabeti: Okay. Well, so I-- The people
ask me this a lot and I like to-- about the sort of algorithm I
developed and I- it’s nice but I like to always say that I put
it in to a context, that it’s only one- it’s an incremental
step. Many people before me and after me and working with me
helped to contribute to it. I think it’s just a little bit about
the way of looking at data so a lot of people for a long time--
Well, when you start going all the way back, even before Darwin
laws people were thinking about what is evolution and how does
it take place and just-- and the simple principle it’s all based
on is if some