On 09/25/2012 10:02 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> 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.) > Where did you get that data-point from? I've been told a single genome sequence takes up about 6 GB of data, and I think that's after it's been processed.
According to this article, raw sequence can take up between 2-30 TB, and a processed one 1.5 GB. (Disclaimer: I only read the executive summary) http://www.genetic-future.com/2008/06/how-much-data-is-human-genome-it.html _______________________________________________ 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
