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Re:200 TB of 1000 genomes data on Amazon S3 as a public dataset by gpurkins on Thursday March 29, 2012 @09:31PM (#3774086)
The real reason for a lot of this is personalized medicine, or rather more specific medicine. A gene translocation or even a SNP may be able to differentiate cancer types and change the course of treatment.
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