10 With the new year about to begin, the idea that Trotsky hinted at in his work comes to mind: in times of change, the competition between the dying world and the emerging world is so intense that they become intertwined, and for a time it's difficult to distinguish between them.

]]> This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the UCSC Genome Browser, a digital tool that has played a key role in the genomics revolution. Created in 2000 by a team of bioinformaticians at the University of California-Santa Cruz, the browser was conceived as an urgent response to the need to visualize the human genome, which had just been sequenced. Today, it remains an essential platform for biomedical research.

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