Precision Medicine Research in the Million-Genome Era

GEN Goes “Big” on Big Data Big Data has fast become more than a biotech buzz word. In fact, the term impacts every stage of the new product discovery, development, and manufacturing cycle. Big Data signifies the critical importance of drug discovery researchers, clinical investigators, and bioprocessors being able to efficiently and economically deal with often overwhelming amounts of scientific information. How to best accomplish this? Our special Big Data section describes several specific techniques and case studies to provide you with some ideas on how your organization can succeed in handling its own Big Data requirements. The core articles include: Precision Medicine Research in the Million-Genome Era; Utilizing Machine-Learning Capabilities; NGS Big Data Issues for Biomanufacturing; and Visualization for Advanced Big Data Analysis. We are confident that these articles will be of interest to you and your colleagues as we begin 2017 with thoughts of projecting our data-rich ventures into a scientific...