Technological advances such as high-throughput sequencing are transforming medicine from symptom-based diagnosis and treatment to personalized medicine as scientists employ novel rapid genomic methodologies to gain a broader comprehension of disease and disease progression. As next-generation sequencing becomes more rapid, researchers are turning toward large-scale pan-omics, the collective use of…

The history of science is replete with instances of multiple discovery—the more or less simultaneous announcement of essentially the same breakthrough by independent researchers. Still, it may still seem uncanny that two separate research groups not only produced a draft map of the human proteome, they also published their results…