[BiO BB] informatics opportunity: "Human genomes in minutes?"

[Martin Gollery]

Yes, all the people that are now working on building and improving
tools for short read sequencing systems may find that these programs
need to be thrown out or revamped before long.

Marty

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 Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> This is a rather obvious thing to try,
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> http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081120/full/news.2008.1245.html
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> Erika Check Hayden
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> A much-watched Silicon Valley company has published a proof of concept for its DNA-sequencing technology, which it hopes will one day be going through entire human genomes in minutes.
> Pacific Biosciences of Menlo Park, California, reports today that it can generate continuous stretches of DNA sequence up to thousands of base pairs long.
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> But it may be something to watch for non-obvious bio-informatics opps.
> Is anyone aware of particularly interesting efforts related to the above?
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Martin Gollery
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist