Genomics In The Cloud - Driving Efficiencies To Advance Scientific Progress

The growth of genomics sequencing

The last 20 years have seen tremendous growth in human genomics. To put things in perspective, the Human Genome project began in 1990 as an international scientific research project with the goal of creating the first human genome sequence.

The project took 10 years to create its first working genome sequence draft and 13 years before it was completed. Today, this process can be completed in under 24 hours 1 .

Due to these incredible advances in technology, millions of genomes have been sequenced so far, making it easier to study diseases associated with mutations in a single gene.

But with genomics sequencing analysis becoming more accessible, the amount of data being produced is rapidly expanding, with the amount of raw genomic data being produced around the world doubling every seven months 2 .