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The real cost of sequencing: scaling computation to keep pace with data generation : http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0917-0

• mbreese 10y ago
  But at least scaling computation / storage is possible. A challenge to be sure, but it's a challenge that the entire computer industry is dealing with. Interpretation, on the other hand, is quite different. Currently, interpretation still requires a human to look at everything. And regardless of how good annotations and algorithms get, I have yet to hear of anyplace where the final annotations aren't manually curated (maybe automated, but still requires a human in the loop). This aspect of Precision Medicine doesn't scale quite as well as sequencing or computation...