DocumentCode
3611267
Title
Decoding a baby???s genome in 26 hours [News]
Volume
52
Issue
12
fYear
2015
fDate
12/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
9
Lastpage
11
Abstract
In a full genome scan, machines record the sequence of the 3.2 billion "letters" that make up a person\´s DNA and look for the roughly 5 million variations that make that person unique. The plummeting cost of such scans is helping doctors find many new uses for them-and in the process causing a new conundrum. "Genetics will be the biggest big-data problem that ever existed," says van Rooyen. Others agree: A study in PLoS Biology predicted that within a decade the computation demands of genetic data will trump those of all other domains, including both astronomical research and YouTube.
Keywords
DNA; biomedical equipment; genetics; genomics; image sequences; medical image processing; molecular biophysics; social networking (online); DNA; PLoS Biology; YouTube; astronomical research; big-data problem; genetic data; genome decoding; genome scan; machines; plummeting;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2015.7335784
Filename
7335784
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