Big data in genomics: An overview

Studies show that healthcare industry in U.S. alone could save billions of dollars by utilizing big data and analytics technologies. Big Data can improve operational efficiencies, help predict and plan responses to disease epidemics, improve the quality of monitoring of clinical trials, and optimize healthcare spending at all levels from patients to hospital systems to governments. Another key area is genomics sequencing which is expected to be the future of healthcare. In this paper the authors look at the opportunities, work in progress and challenges of genomics with emerging big data and analytics.