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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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