JGI said its action follows the exponential increase of its sequence output in recent years. Just over the past year, the institute’s sequencing output has leapt to 6 terabytes, up from 1 terabyte at the end of the 2009 fiscal year.
“We’re really interested in undertaking projects that either require specific upfront molecular biology, very large scale, or informatic capabilities that exist at the JGI and that won’t exist in other centers,” Jim Bristow, JGI’s deputy director of programs, said earlier this month.
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