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Editorial Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease: A PLoS Collection 1 2 Jonathan A. Eisen *, Catriona J. MacCallum * 1 University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 2 Public Library of Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom Today, the Public Library of Science publishes a collection of emerging infectious disease through its Predict and Prevent essays, perspectives, and reviews about how genomics, with all its initiative [14]) with PLoS’s editorial independence and rigor. associated tools and techniques, can provide insights into our Gupta et al. [1] provide G’s perspective and vision for understanding of emerging infectious disease (http://ploscollections. how systematic application of genomics, proteomics, and bioinfor- org/emerginginfectiousdisease/) [1–13]. This collection, focused on matics to infectious diseases could predict and prevent the next human disease, is particularly timely as pandemic H1N1 2009 pandemic. To realize this vision, they urge the community to unite influenza (commonly referred to as swine flu) spreads around the under an ‘‘Infectious Disease Genomics Project,’’ analogous to the globe, and government officials, the public, journalists, bloggers, and Human Genome Project. This is, as the authors admit, a tweeters strive to find out more. People want to know if this flu poses potentially ‘‘grandiose’’ and difficult proposition. Some researchers more of a threat than other seasonal flu strains, how fast it’s might justifiably argue that much is already being achieved—as spreading (and where), and what can be done to contain it. As this