<s>
The	O
social	B-General_Concept
genome	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
collection	O
of	O
data	O
about	O
members	O
of	O
a	O
society	O
that	O
is	O
captured	O
in	O
ever-larger	O
and	O
ever-more	O
complex	O
databases	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
government	O
administrative	O
data	O
,	O
operational	O
data	O
,	O
social	O
media	O
data	O
etc	O
.	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
First	O
,	O
the	O
word	O
Social	B-General_Concept
Genome	I-General_Concept
was	O
used	O
in	O
a	O
letter	O
to	O
the	O
editor	O
submission	O
to	O
Science	O
in	O
response	O
to	O
a	O
seminal	O
article	O
about	O
using	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
for	O
social	O
science	O
by	O
King	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
letter	O
was	O
published	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
word	O
social	B-General_Concept
genome	I-General_Concept
was	O
edited	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
letter	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Together	O
,	O
these	O
digital	O
traces	O
collectively	O
capture	O
our	O
social	B-General_Concept
genome	I-General_Concept
,	O
the	O
footprints	O
of	O
our	O
society.	O
”	O
In	O
2014	O
,	O
a	O
vision	O
paper	O
on	O
population	O
informatics	O
was	O
published	O
which	O
further	O
elaborated	O
on	O
the	O
term	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Second	O
,	O
separately	O
at	O
about	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
,	O
a	O
group	O
of	O
researchers	O
led	O
by	O
the	O
Brookings	O
Institution	O
started	O
the	O
Social	B-General_Concept
Genome	I-General_Concept
Project	O
which	O
built	O
a	O
data-rich	O
model	O
to	O
map	O
the	O
pathway	O
to	O
the	O
Middle	O
class	O
by	O
tracing	O
the	O
life	O
course	O
from	O
birth	O
until	O
middle	O
age	O
.	O
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