User:Ebbenw/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Whole genome sequencing

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

Whole genome sequencing allows for the analysis of the entire human genome in a relatively short period of time. This technique has many diagnostic capabilities, but also comes with ethical concerns. My preliminary impression is that the article is well-supported. It talks in-depth about the current methods of testing as well as previous methods which predate whole genome sequencing. It also briefly touches upon the ethical concerns and other implications.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Everything in this article was on-topic. I was not distracted by any information.

The information used is mostly up to date. The bulk of articles are from the past decade. A few older articles are cited, but they are used to reference the history of whole genome sequencing and other methods which served as the foundation for whole genome sequencing. One thing that I did notice which was out of date, was that the article referenced that the NIH expects to publish its whole genome database by early 2022. However, this has since passed and no update was added.

In terms of equity, almost every article cited is open access. The bulk of the research, however, seems to come from the US and Europe. Another ethical concern of whole genome sequencing is that the majority of genome databases are built by sequencing individuals of European descent. This is problematic in that people of other ethnicities are underrepresented, and the database does not serve as a good comparison for their genome. This ethical concern, however, was not represented well in the Wikipedia article.

The tone of the article is neutral. As stated above, the perspective of the concerns of the underrepresentation of several ethnic groups in genome databases is not very prevalent in the article.

The links to the sources work. The sources are neutral. The publications come mostly from researchers in the US and Western Europe.

The talk section outlines some areas of the article which could be updated. There was also a concern that part of a paragraph had been plagiarized from an abstract published in Nature.