Genomic data has gone big. What does it matter?

This is the title of a blog post published on Transforming Society in connection with the release of Mareile’s book Making Information Matter as a paperback version. She describes how investigative genetic genealogy and phenotyping make genetic information matter in new ways, but also render big genome data into a matter of concern.

Topically, Donald Trump’s recurring comments on the relevance of genetics to superiority illustrate why big genomic data should matter to us all.