Visiting friends and seeing their autistic son jolted me and made me think more about medical issues than I have before. I'm a IT person.
Separately,I take an interest in financial stuff and one of the fund managers I respect ( one of perhaps 10 ! ) - John Hussman, funds autistic research, also takes part in ( as the team statistician ) and wrote up a paper on a GWAS study of autism. He posted it on his funds website recently and I actually read it all the way through and found it interesting.
Which is a long way round to saying that's why I've got interested in NGS. I'll always be coming at it from the cloud computing perspective - I've already got as far as setting up a MapReduce, Hadoop, Mahout ( framework for machine intelligence ) cluster.
Now I've just go to figure out which of the various areas of NGS I want to go for!
Separately,I take an interest in financial stuff and one of the fund managers I respect ( one of perhaps 10 ! ) - John Hussman, funds autistic research, also takes part in ( as the team statistician ) and wrote up a paper on a GWAS study of autism. He posted it on his funds website recently and I actually read it all the way through and found it interesting.
Which is a long way round to saying that's why I've got interested in NGS. I'll always be coming at it from the cloud computing perspective - I've already got as far as setting up a MapReduce, Hadoop, Mahout ( framework for machine intelligence ) cluster.
Now I've just go to figure out which of the various areas of NGS I want to go for!