Transgene

Publications

Monograph

García-Sancho M. and Lowe J.W.E. (2023) A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects (Palgrave Macmillan). Published open access.

Special journal issue

García-Sancho M. and Lowe J.W.E. (Eds., 2022) The Sequences and the Sequencers: A New Approach to Investigating the Emergence of Yeast, Human, and Pig Genomics, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 52(3), formed by five constitutive papers:

  1. Leng R., Viry G, García-Sancho M., Lowe J.W.E., Wong M. and Vermeulen N. (2022) "The Sequences and the Sequencers: What Can a Mixed-Methods Approach Reveal about the History of Genomics?", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 52 (3): 277–319. Published open access.
  2. García-Sancho M., Leng R., Viry G, Wong M., Vermeulen N. and Lowe J.W.E (2022) "The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 52 (3): 320–360. Published open access.
  3. García-Sancho M., Lowe J.W.E, Viry G, Leng R., Wong M. and Vermeulen N. (2022) "Yeast Sequencing: 'Network' Genomics and Institutional Bridges", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 52 (3): 361–400. Published open access.
  4. Lowe J.W.E, Leng R., Viry G, Wong M., Vermeulen N. and García-Sancho M. (2022) "The Bricolage of Pig Genomics", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 52 (3): 401–442. Published open access.
  5. Lowe J.W.E, García-Sancho M., Leng R., Wong M., Vermeulen N. and Viry G. (2022) "Across and within Networks: Thickening the History of Genomics", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 52 (3): 443–475. Published open access.

Peer-reviewed articles

Szymansky E.A. (2024) "When Extracting Is Not Subtracting: Accounting for Organism-technologies as Stakeholders in Microbial Resource Extraction through an Experiment in Discursive Biomimicry", Science, Technology, & Human Values, 49: 555-577. Published open access.

Bruce A. and Lowe J.W.E. (2023) "Pigs and chips: the making of a biotechnology innovation ecosystem", Science & Technology Studies, 36(3): 24–42. Published open access.

Lowe J.W.E. and Ingram D. (2023) "DNA barcoding and the changing ontological commitments of taxonomy", Biology and Philosophy, 38: 32.

Lowe J.W.E. (2022) "Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research", History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44: 66. Published open access.

Lowe J.W.E. (2021) "Adjusting to precarity: how and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research", The British Journal for the History of Science, 54: 507–530. Published open access.

Szymansky E.A., Vermeulen, N. and Wong, M. (2019) "Yeast: one cell, one reference sequence, many genomes?", New Genetics and Society, 38: 430-50. Published open access.

Lowe J.W.E. and Bruce A. (2019) "Genetics without genes? The centrality of genetic markers in livestock genetics and genomics", History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 41: 50. Published open access.

Lowe J.W.E. (2018) "Sequencing through thick and thin: historiographical and philosophical implications", Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 72: 10-27. Open access postprint.

Others

Garcia-Sancho, M. (in press, 2026) "Europe and the genome: an overlooked strategy for a translational genomics". In C.R. Donohue and A.C. Love (eds.) Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science). ISBN: 9781517921019.

Wong, M. and Leng, R. (2019) "On the design of linked datasets mapping networks of collaboration in the genomic sequencing of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Homo sapiens, and Sus scrofa", peer-reviewed data note, F1000Research, 8: 1200. Published open access.

Parolini, G. (2018) 'Building human and industrial capacity in European biotechnology: the yeast genome sequencing project (1989–1996)', open access preprint available at the Technical University of Berlin institutional repository. In addition to the acknowledgements section, Miguel García-Sancho, Principal Investigator of the TRANSGENE project, would like to thank Niki Vermeulen, Farah Huzair, James Lowe and Mark Wong for the time invested in reading and commenting on drafts.