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Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story

  • Written by Marc Zimmer, Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College
Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the storyA pathogen's genome acts as a biological record of where it came from and how it spread.Westend61/Getty Images

Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study outbreaks by allowing them to read a...

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