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Speaker urges stronger bioinformatics capacity as sequencing costs fall
Summary
The lecturer said rapid advances in sequencing technology are lowering costs and expanding comparative genomics, but emphasized a shortage of bioinformaticists and software to analyze the resulting data; a planned workshop next October was cited as addressing those gaps.
Speaker 3, Lecturer, described rapid declines in sequencing cost and expanded throughput and said bioinformatics capacity is the bottleneck. “We don't have enough bioinformaticists to address the need, and secondly, we don't have the software that can really pull a lot of correlations that we're not able to do,” the lecturer said, announcing a planned workshop…
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