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Optimizing Biobank-Scale Genomics For Rare Diseases

By Tien-Anh Nguyen on 4 minutes read

The Challenge: Big Data Meets Complex Biology Developing a scalable solution for rare disease screening at population scale presents a perfect storm of computational and biological complexity. The numbers can be staggering: over a billion variant alleles distributed across hundreds of thousands of genomic shards, often totaling tens of terabytes of data. But beyond the computational demands lies an even greater hurdle—the nuanced molecular complexity of rare genetic diseases themselves. Unlik

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Processing 500,000 whole genome sequences to identify rare genetic disease variants</span>