Responses to the open questions also indicated that research capacity was a crucial limiting factor. As with stratified medicine, most respondents did not distinguish between basic research and translational or implementation work, though two did comment on the need for more translation of research findings into practice. More pressing, it seems, was a sense that developments in genomic science and practice remain concentrated in major urban centres, with two respondents commenting on the difficulties of extending the scientific capacity for infectious disease control from key centres to the rest of the country.