ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
Planetary-scale indexing of sequencing data
Nowadays a huge amount of planetary DNA and RNA sequencing data is available and continues to double every two years. However, efficiently analyzing this data is impossible due to its size measured in petabases. Many high-impact biological discoveries could be made but are prevented by the lack of fast search algorithms. I recently demonstrated this potential by discovering an order of magnitude more RNA virus species within all public RNA samples. A global index, i.e. a planetary genomic search engine, would unlock instant and inexpensive search within petabase-scale data. I hypothesize that I can create a searchable index for all of the public DNA and RNA sequencing data. Leveraging my…
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