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2 February 2011

Genomics processing in the cloud

Sequencing a simple organism's entire genome can now be done in a matter of hours — a huge improvement, when you consider that it took 13 years to do the original Human Genome Project.

But a new bottleneck has come up, in the form of processing the large amounts of data involved.

Now, however, an on-demand, cloud-based solution could come to the rescue.

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