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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.

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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.
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