Jornal de Bioinformática Aplicada e Biologia Computacional

New Era for Biocomputing

Momiao Xiong

New Era for Biocomputing

Fast and cheaper Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies will generate unprecedentedly massive (thousands or even ten thousands of individuals) and highly-dimensional (ten or even dozens of millions) genomic and epigenomic variation data that allow nearly complete evaluation of genomic and epigenomic variation including common and rare variants, insertion/deletion, CNVs, mRNA by sequencing (RNA-seq), microRNA by sequencing (mRNA-seq), methylation by sequencing (methylation-seq) and Chip-seq. Analysis of these extremely big and diverse types of data sets provide powerful tools to comprehensively understand the genome and epigenomes.