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Sequencing is the easy part? What planet are you from? Practical sequencing of whole human genomes required the inventions of brand new De-novo technologies. Th
by jostmey 14y ago
Sequencing is the easy part? What planet are you from? Practical sequencing of whole human genomes required the inventions of brand new De-novo technologies. The problems facing sequencing weren't just tough and complex, but seemingly intractable. The computational stuff seems challenging, but at least the problems are tractable and straightforward.
- arnsholt 14y agoHe's right though. Ten years ago it was different, but as the top-level comment quotes, the problem now is sifting through the terabytes or even petabytes of data generated by the sequencing process. Even worse is the fact that our ability to sequence is increasing faster than our ability to process the data.
- chrisamiller 14y agoThis, a thousand times. Sequencing is rapidly becoming cheap and routine. Translating that data into clinically actionable insights is the hard part.