When we get injured, our healing system starts recovering itself and produces new cells to replace the damaged one, have you ever thought how this system works and who tells our body’s healing system to produce exactly same kind of cells to replace the dead one?
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Consider this, we grew up from baby to an adult, who tells the body to increase organs sizes, bigger legs and hands and stretch the skin as per the size we grow?
As per scientists the genetic information explains all questions related to our body. The genetic information that builds and develops any organism is considered as Genome. And these instructions are made up of DNA. Every living organism has their own unique Genome. And each human genome is 3.2 billion DNA base, mean 3.2 billion genetic letters, which is huge and in computer terminology, it is around 200 GB of data. If one human genome sequencing produces so much data, then think of all humans, that’s very huge. The first human genome sequencing done in 2003, started in 1990, and costed approximately $2 billion. With technological advancement, today we can get done Genome Sequencing 30 times more faster than before and it costs around $1000 and it is estimated that as demand, scale of Genome generation increases, cost even reduces around 100$, with the motto that everyone can afford.
Genome helps Doctors to understand root cause of any disease and encounter with appropriate medicine, without harming normal cells. The idea is more helpful in Cancer treatment, which helps to identify the drugs that can stop or kill growth of Cancer cells. Sequencing Genome for every patient produces huge amount of data, processing such big data using tradition approach is not feasible. With massive parallel computing and big data analytics approach helps collect, manipulate and analyze huge data. Advancement in biomedical research in collaboration with Big Data techniques, there is no doubt that in near future Genome Sequencing will become one of the advanced methodology in understand and treating any deadly diseases.
Paper that explains how big data is used in Genomic medicine.
Yourgenome is a place to know about genome, DNA and gene.
Big data and genome together can unlock next level of medical therapies.
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