LEGACY TECHNOLOGY IS UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE EXPLOSION OF DATA AND THE NEED FOR FAST , LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS .
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LEGACY TECHNOLOGY IS UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE EXPLOSION OF DATA AND THE NEED FOR FAST , LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS .
to sequence DNA in less than an hour for less than $ 1,000 .
The main barrier for clinicians now is the very fast analysis of the DNA samples of multiple patients , as legacy technology simply can ’ t achieve this . Old spinning disk infrastructure is too slow , so the pace of progress is immeasurably slower . One of the big advantages of flash storage is it can deliver massive parallelism , which allows the simultaneous ingestion and analysis of genomic data from dozens of patients . This reduces the time required to sequence the same number of people . Sequencing can then be done on a large scale , both in terms of computation and storage , which reduces the cost of sequencing while increasing the scale . The more people are sequenced , the more data there is to draw from and the better understanding of how medicine is likely to impact a person .
Coping with the data explosion
Health data is heterogeneous in terms of format , size and frequency of use : the difference between the size of imaging files and that of genomics files can be one to 1,000 times greater . Additionally , the amount of data created is rapidly increasing petabytes of information is produced by each hospital . This represents a major
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