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Mining the honey bee genome

What does it mean for a community that focuses on one organism to have that organism’s genome sequenced? Just ask researchers who gathered this week at the Honey Bee Genomics and Biology Meeting at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York. It’s the first time such a conference has been held since the honey bee genome was sequenced, and over the course of the past three days it’s become abundantly clear that this is a field transformed, greatly expanded and diversified from just four years ago. “Before the genome… studying bees was kind of esoteric,” says Harland 

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