Clearly, the DNA sequencing technology has matured and is continuously being optimized for performance while becoming increasingly affordable, thus opening an era of reliable and foreseeable quality data growth demanding high computational resources and data storage. With the rise of varied applications, be it in cancer research, infectious diseases, and other therapy areas, and with the launch of large initiatives (e.g. The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI)), the need to address the ensuing data explosion is imminent.
Oncology is the dominant sector that currently benefits from next-generation sequencing followed by applications in inherited and rare disease understanding, infectious disease, the microbiome, and others. It is expected that soon, agriculture will also benefit from the technological developments that currently help propel both biomedical research and the clinical sector. Continue reading