This is a question that is often asked when I demo the GenomeQuest platform to potential customers. I always answer that question in three phases. The first phase goes like this: "It's really fast, it's certainly not any slower than BWA/Bowtie or anything else out there.". Next question is always: "Well, do you have any benchmarks?". Which ...
A plot of the Evolution of Computer Capacity and Costs shows that compute power will be 1,000X cheaper in 10 years. How much lower can it go? As this happens the relative cost of managing another computer goes asymptotic to zero, regardless of whether its hosted internally or externally. I don't think there is ...
The recent article "Tear Down This Firewall: Pharma Scientists Call for a Pre-competitive Approach to Bioinformatics" signals a watershed event in the evolution of commercial bioinformatics industry. Faced with the dual forces of budget pressures and need to invest or die, pharma is giving itself "permission" to consider economic alternatives to ...
