Next Generation Sequencing

Recently we interviewed the Associate Director at ICBR, University of Florida, Dr. Bill Farmerie, and the five-year veteran running next generation sequencing instruments, says today’s challenge is not dealing with the instruments themselves, but the data that comes off them:

The real challenge is not dealing with the high-throughput sequencing instruments, but the data. And why wouldn’t you adopt commercial solutions, like CLC bio? They’re simple to use and you don’t spend a lot of valuable time developing tools that already exist. Instead you should use your valuable staff time following up on the things that you can not get from a commercial developer - where you’re out breaking new ground and running ahead of everyone else! And that’s really what you want your bioinformatics staff working on, as opposed to doing something that someone else have already have done.

You can see the entire interview right here.