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Interpreting NGS Tests for Inherited Disorders: Three trends that will change everything
T R E N D #1:
Drowning in
genomic data
The accumulation of genomic data is exceeding
our current technologic capacity to manage it
The rising tide of genomic analysis
New methodologies, techniques and instruments
According to a 2017 white paper from Stanford
led to the development of next-generation
University School of Medicine, 153 exabytes of
sequencing (NGS), a term used to describe very
healthcare data were produced in 2013, and
high-throughput DNA sequencing capable of
an estimated 2,314 exabytes will be produced
deciphering millions of nucleotide sequences
by the end of 2020, a 48 percent growth rate
simultaneously. Through this technology, it is
annually.1 This growth rate is so extreme that we
possible to generate massive amounts of genomic
can say that 99 percent of the world's data has
data per instrument run, in a faster and more cost-
been created in the past 18 months-a staggering
effective way, enabling the parallel analysis of
statistic.
several genes or even the entire genome from a
This explosion of healthcare data is largely
attributed to technological advancements in
single test.
In fact, NGS technology has become so
sequencing procedures. After the successful
affordable and accessible throughout the world,
completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003,
that the total amount of sequencing data produced
the time and the cost of sequencing genomes were
doubles approximately every seven months.3 And
reduced by a factor of 1 million in less than 10
at this pace, experts predict that between 100
years.2
million and as many as 2 billion human genomes
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ClinicalOMICs.com
https://www.clinicalomics.com/
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