Of course I recognize the potential of this technology; I wouldn&#x27;t be in this field otherwise. And I probably am jaded, because I think people are constantly overemphasizing and overplaying our understanding of things in order to sound sexy and attract funding.<p>I think there&#x27;s probably a fifteen-year lag in this stuff being useful. The insights we&#x27;re having now are because of the sequencing of the human genome; the work we&#x27;re doing now will pay off in another decade and a half when we&#x27;ve figured out how to deal with gene expression.<p>&gt;do the full genome sequences yet actually read every base in your genome even?<p>Read, sequence: yes. Align: no.