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Next-gen sequencing company Illumina encouraging Amazon AWS use

15 points by carbocation 17y ago

carbocation 17y ago
Admittedly, the reference to the Illumina-AWS link is not a major part of this story, but I have yet to find another source detailing this particular fact. Illumina is one of the major next-gen (aka sequencing-by-synthesis or shotgun) sequencing players. The fact that they are encouraging AWS usage is remarkable for a few reasons. First, it's a testament to cloud computing's growing importance. Second, we're talking about a lot of human genetic data that may soon be traversing the network between various institutes and Amazon's servers, with all of the security and privacy consequences thereof. So, as a hacker, a medical person, and someone who uses next-gen sequencing, this is of interest to me. (As an aside, the name "next-gen sequencing" is unfortunate; what shall we call the generation after this?)
- borga 17y ago
  new next-gen?
  - bbgm 17y ago
    There was talk a year or so ago of calling next-gen, "now" gen. My completely unsubstantiated guess is that the PacBio's of the world will end up being called "third gen"
    - borga 17y ago
      They are not third either, more like fourth or fifth. Maybe I will go with next-next-gen.
- ramanujan 17y ago
  Hey carbocation, you don't have an email contact address. I'm also working on this and would like to chat offline if you have a moment. My temp email is temporary.hn@gmail.com.
  - carbocation 17y ago
    Message sent. Also, thanks for the note about the email address; I've added one now. Cheers.
- Gmo 17y ago
  well, I heard 2 names for the gen after this next-gen ... One is next-next gen, although of course, this will have to stop at some point. The other one is simply 3rd generation sequencing (much more future proof :))
- asjo 17y ago
  the name "next-gen sequencing" is unfortunate; what shall we call the generation after this? XP? 2000? 7?
joshu 17y ago
now that's some serious future right there. why don't any scifi writers write like this?

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Next-gen sequencing company Illumina encouraging Amazon AWS use

15 points by carbocation 17y ago

carbocation 17y ago
Admittedly, the reference to the Illumina-AWS link is not a major part of this story, but I have yet to find another source detailing this particular fact. Illumina is one of the major next-gen (aka sequencing-by-synthesis or shotgun) sequencing players. The fact that they are encouraging AWS usage is remarkable for a few reasons. First, it's a testament to cloud computing's growing importance. Second, we're talking about a lot of human genetic data that may soon be traversing the network between various institutes and Amazon's servers, with all of the security and privacy consequences thereof. So, as a hacker, a medical person, and someone who uses next-gen sequencing, this is of interest to me. (As an aside, the name "next-gen sequencing" is unfortunate; what shall we call the generation after this?)
- borga 17y ago
  new next-gen?
  - bbgm 17y ago
    There was talk a year or so ago of calling next-gen, "now" gen. My completely unsubstantiated guess is that the PacBio's of the world will end up being called "third gen"
    - borga 17y ago
      They are not third either, more like fourth or fifth. Maybe I will go with next-next-gen.
- ramanujan 17y ago
  Hey carbocation, you don't have an email contact address. I'm also working on this and would like to chat offline if you have a moment. My temp email is temporary.hn@gmail.com.
  - carbocation 17y ago
    Message sent. Also, thanks for the note about the email address; I've added one now. Cheers.
- Gmo 17y ago
  well, I heard 2 names for the gen after this next-gen ... One is next-next gen, although of course, this will have to stop at some point. The other one is simply 3rd generation sequencing (much more future proof :))
- asjo 17y ago
  the name "next-gen sequencing" is unfortunate; what shall we call the generation after this? XP? 2000? 7?
joshu 17y ago
now that's some serious future right there. why don't any scifi writers write like this?