[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] Gary Van Domselaar • November 29, 2000
    "The gene machines at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge, responsible for mapping a third of the human genome, are still whirring night and day.

    Never mind that a working draft of the 3.1 billion letters in the "book of life" was completed on June 26. That is just the start of a coming tidal wave of genetic information.

    Managing and interpreting the trillions of bits of data, or terabytes, generated by the genomics revolution is now the biggest task facing biologists – and a major business opportunity for computer companies.

    "Informatics is going to be the key challenge in the future," said Richard Durbin, Sanger deputy head and the man in charge of making the number-crunching work."

    Full Story:
    http://news.excite.com/news/r/001128/10/science-computers-genome-dc

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