Scientists about sequencing data: We drown in data but thirst for knowledge
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 11:01
in Biology & Nature
The availability of genome data has revolutionized modern biology and molecular medicine. However, with the costs for genome sequencing dropping by several orders of magnitude down to 200 EUR for a bacterial genome, the amount of species with available whole-genome sequences has exploded over the last years. On the other hand, information does not equal knowledge, say researchers from University of Southern Denmark, who have analyzed bacteria genome sequences.