A good time for life sciences: from GM food to Dolly the sheep, biotechnology is a hot topic

Julia Goodfellow, the new chief executive of BBSRC has a clear priority: excellence in science. To achieve this, last week she launched a 10-year plan. The idea is to consolidate a strategy to allocate funds to the wide range of activities the BBSRC's remit covers. One area that is particularly interesting is data handling since for example Genome sequencing requires the capacity to deal with very large amounts of data.