Biology and Informatics: Waiting for the Third Breakthrough?

... many with what is called Big Data. * * * Data volumes are growing, but the understanding of what is behind them is, unfortunately, still very far from what is needed for practical use, especially in medicine. One of the main challenges faced by bioinformatics during the progress in the field of genome sequencing techniques has been formulated by Professor George M. Church: $1000 to sequence the genome, and then $1M to interpret it . Data volumes are growing, but the understanding of what is behind them is, unfortunately, still very far from ...