> Talking about Raspberry Pi, I saw this mentioned on a Pi forum: > > http://www.gizmag.com/minion-disposable-dna-sequencer/21513/
talk about non-sequitur! > Woudl anyone want to comment? What impact wlll a $900 sequencer have? I'm not sure price or accessibility is what holds back DNA today. you'll still have to do some glassware/reagent stuff to feed that micropore device. and having a sequence doesn't do you that much good (you can't just diff against some canonical sequence and print off a mutation report...) further, understanding what particular sequences _do_ is still very time/labor consuming. as an HPC thing, I suppose cheaper/more widespread sequencing will increase storage needs, though to be honest, sequences themselves are not particularly large (say .5G raw data from the device lifespan.) socially, I suppose there will be Gattica-like applications, but getting real value from these devices will be tricky. (just consider that expression is what really counts, and the sequence doesn't give you that...) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
