linkedin post 2014-02-22 05:45:51

FORTH KEY LIFESCIENCE TREND: BIG DATA. Biology’s big problem is too much data. More scientific information has been generated in recent years than in the entire history of the world. “Today, compared to the collection of genomes of the microorganisms … each human genome, which easily fits on a DVD, is comparatively simple. Its 3 billion DNA base pairs and about 20,000 genes seem paltry next to the roughly 100 billion bases and millions of genes that make up the microbes found in the human body.””
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