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Illumina machines can be tweaked to give data quickly, says Chad Nusbaum, the co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass.
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Future research will look at how the microbiome is "established in infants and maintained throughout life, " said Bruce Birren, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
WSJ: Gene Map of Body's Microbes Is New Health Tool
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Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.
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The DNA sequencing and the data analysis will be compliant with regulations for lab diagnostics.
FORBES: PerkinElmer Enters DNA Sequencing Market
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In the next generation of DNA sequencing, routine DNA analysis in the clinical setting is not far off.
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But the center will face significant hurdles: While sequencing is declining in cost, understanding the origins of diseases such as cancer and devising potential treatments requires costly and complicated analysis of the sequencing.
WSJ: New Home for Genome
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The decision to enter the DNA-decoding market came about because although PerkinElmer is big player in diagnostics and in the analysis of proteins, it had no real presence in DNA sequencing.
FORBES: PerkinElmer Enters DNA Sequencing Market