[baran1]

I started working at a genomics company about a couple of years ago and my experience is very different from the post. Although there might be a handful of bioinformatics tools that are quite old, the ones at the heart of of operations are worked on by teams and reasonably maintained, and although I agree with the headline that there's a lot of work to be done in the area - my perspective is a little different. Although this doesn't apply to all genomics companies, I'm at a company that has a lab, and the software we write makes the lab about 8x more efficient and the next generation of sequencing technology will bring sequencing costs down by about 5x. Meanwhile the science and literature keep pushing further and newer generations of physicians are putting a stronger emphasis on genomic counseling. Thanks in part to the power of viral sequencing data the government is starting to trust laboratories that bring valuable and actionable insights. I think all of those combined with the fact that CRISPR technologies are getting further along puts genomics in a unique position. TLDR; yes genomics is exciting and on the brink of something big, but no it's not a dumpster fire that needs saving. Oh and as a bonus - I get to work with really smart scientists and they are very friendly :)