You've probably read Andrew Pollack's DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data, by now. This section caught my eye: "The cost of sequencing a human genome — all three billion bases of DNA in a set of ...
The Beagle supercomputer, one of the most powerful computers in the world, has broken a new record in mapping the entire human genome in just fewer than 50 hours. While this initially may sound like ...