The human genome -- now on an iPad near you This logo for the
Genome Wowser application was designed by the Center for
Biomedical Informatics at CHOP. Credit: The Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia Navigating the human genome with software that
you can view on an iPad sounds pretty impressive, until perhaps
you reflect that nature has already encoded trillions of copies
of this in your chromosomes. Then again, printing that data
using ink and paper would produce a mind-staggering pile of
pagesso viewing it on an iPad may be impressive after all. Now
the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia has created Genome Wowser, an app for
exploring genomic information that is convenient, intuitive and
highly mobile. Anyone with an iPad can download the app for free
from the iTunes App StoreSM on the internet. Using Genome
Wowser, a researcher can traverse the human genome just like
planning a travel route on Google Maps. A common use for the
tool is to enter the name of a g