Oddly enough, I found a similar sentiment echoed last night when I was looking up how widespread the use of ASICs was in various scientific fields. I had disc

Oddly enough, I found a similar sentiment echoed last night when I was looking up how widespread the use of ASICs was in various scientific fields. I had discovered an FPGA startup called Edico Genome [1] that seemed to offer substantial advantages in speed of processing, and after searching through reddit came across a post where someone noted that there has been a precedent for FPGA/ASIC related companies to go under in the genomics sphere [2]. The poster there attributed this to an unwillingness to use tools that weren't widely cited, however. [1] http://edicogenome.com/ http://edicogenome.com/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/73wcd3/failed_startups/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/73wcd3/fail...