"In my project, we faced a total of 128 trees with an average age of 70 years".
As the project started, we faced a challenge that is typical for many new genome projects: the sequencing data was available before the genome database and annotation tools were ready for the eager annotators.
If there is an immutable truth today it is that, as a society, we no longer have the luxury of wasting public funds on costly projects that won't address the problems we face -- projects that persist more for reasons of politics or bureaucratic momentum than effectiveness.
In the ETHICO project, we had to face the challenge that the ethical theory selected was supposed to serve a variety of aims during the different stages of the research (see section The ETHICO project ("Empirical-ethical interventions in oncology")).
Without proper sustainability assessment, the projects may face operational problems.
Bioinformatics and pharmacogenomics projects also face these challenges [ 41].
Large consortia projects often face many criticisms [ 19, 20].
These projects face several challenges due to the size and the complexity of the projects.
But many planned government projects face the axe.
"All these lottery-funded projects face the same fate.
