The new genomic patient

Each genome, epigenome, metabolome, microbiome, etc. is, as we learn, an interactome. In the philosopher’s imagination, the genome has lost its supremacy and at the same turn won in significance by acknowledging its interrelatedness with those other parts and processes in the cell it once was thought to dominate. Dead is the "genetic programme" model of the genome. Long live the genome as an intricate information resource that successfully interacts with other components and processes of the cell and is used by the cell (rather than controlling it) in sometimes unforeseen and complicated ways, as they have emerged during evolution. In this present time, genetics has become even more