>> 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) > > At 2TB and a 6 hour lifespan for this thing to pull in the genome,
512 pores, each 15 bp/second, totalling "about" 7500 bp/sec or 1875 bytes/second. > you're talking about around 90MB/s to process, and at 30TB now we're > talking about near to 1.4GB/s to process. I think you're mixing up the two (radically different) approaches. the old short-read systems are definitely more data (and reassembly) intensive. -mark _______________________________________________ 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
