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Re:In Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future by tomjen3 on Monday July 09, 2012 @01:10PM (#4219121)
The future is always expensive (think cars, when they first arrived) and then gets progressively cheaper.

And looking at the price to sequence DNA -- I have seen little, if anything, that ever crashed that fast.

Re:In Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future by adrianN on Monday July 09, 2012 @01:32PM (#4219250)
Sequencing is the easy part. The hard part is making sense of the sequencing data. For that we'll need some serious innovations before it becomes viable for everyday treatments.
Re:In Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future by jostmey on Monday July 09, 2012 @03:54PM (#4220071)
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.
Re:In Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future by arnsholt on Monday July 09, 2012 @04:52PM (#4220349)
He'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.

Re:In Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future by chrisamiller on Monday July 09, 2012 @06:25PM (#4220901)
This, a thousand times. Sequencing is rapidly becoming cheap and routine. Translating that data into clinically actionable insights is the hard part.