If you have an opportunity to read this...but I'll give you one example. As you know, for such things as mad cow disease, working out the genetic composition of normal beef cattle and cows and so on is a tremendous advance in allowing us to make rapid diagnosis of the presence of mad cow disease, rather than having to wait months while it goes through laboratories working on brain samples and so on. If you had a test based on genetics that would come through a blood sample, you'd have rapid diagnosis.
In the area of other infectious diseases in humans, the genomic centres in western Canada played a critical role in determining the nature of the SARS virus, the virus that was responsible for the SARS epidemic, and have been major contributors to figuring out the genetic composition of the H1N1 flu virus. That allows vaccine development to proceed more quickly.
We also have dozens of projects in the agriculture area with respect to changing the genetic composition of crops to make them more resistant to plant diseases, to make them more weather resistant. Those are the sorts of things we do.