THE laborious process of deciphering the human genome could be accelerated by decades thanks to software that vastly improves researchers’ ability to collect and analyse data. A prototype system is now being developed at universities in the UK.
The amount of genome data available is expanding at breathtaking speed, but with molecular biologists generating information at about twice the rate at which computer processing power is rising, it is increasingly difficult to keep up. “There’s a massive amount of information and it’s increasing daily,” says Carol Goble, project leader at the University of Manchester, UK.
Worse, much of this data…
