Sequencing at Scale: Pros and Cons

October 17, 2012 | There are two opinions in sequencing: "bigger is better" and "small is best." Big sequencing centers can scale efficiently, but sometimes big centers can't meet the specific needs of users. The New York Genome Center’s Senior Vice President of Informatics, Dirk Evers, and Herbert Auer, director of the Functional Genomics Core at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine of the Parc Cientific de Barcelona gave gave back-to-back presentations discussing the options at the 2012 Bio-IT World Europe Conference and Expo in Vienna, Austria. NYGC