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Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney is Deputy Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and a Director of EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), He tweets at @EwanBirney, from which this article was adapted.

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