Do high-throughput instruments generating terabytes of data change the dynamic?
The high-throughput era has been upon us for some time now. When we first started with those approaches, the first step was to manage the data. We now have a lot of data that we are managing and we are at the next step. Managing the data is not enough and analyzing it by itself is not enough. We need to be analyzing it integrated with our data. And with new technology, such as second-generation sequencing or more sophisticated imaging technologies, as people are developing tools to manage that data, we already know it needs to be integrated with other data. So we are already a step ahead of where we were a couple of years ago. We already know we need to do that next step. We’re doing it better and more efficiently. What do you think of Sage, the non-profit founded by Merck’s Eric Schadt and Stephen Friend, to offer open access to a wealth of data? The effort of Sage is to share the data. We are generating a lot of data and there is no good reason to be duplicating efforts as we generat
