Framingham and TCGA act as north stars that drive tech stacks, not repeatable experiments
viriditax · x · 2026-09-21
Genomics researcher viriditax argues in a discussion that pivotal data generation efforts like the Framingham Heart Study and TCGA were never meant as one-time experiments—today they realistically cannot be redone. They instead operate as "north stars": extremely useful end goals that require building an (also useful) technology stack to achieve them.
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