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Joan Brugge, tonight's keynote lecturer, was unable to attend so a lecture was given by Mike Stratton instead. It was... impressive.
It made me realize yet again that there will NEVER be a single treatment for cancer. I was amazed by how he talked about multiple coverage sequencing and resequencing of thousands of genes from a thousand different cancers. That is SO MUCH SEQUENCING. Even if it's all automated, the analysis... makes my brain hurt.
But he spoke of it so casually. I guess that's what happens when you're the head of a project funded by the Wellcome Trust.
It made me realize yet again that there will NEVER be a single treatment for cancer. I was amazed by how he talked about multiple coverage sequencing and resequencing of thousands of genes from a thousand different cancers. That is SO MUCH SEQUENCING. Even if it's all automated, the analysis... makes my brain hurt.
But he spoke of it so casually. I guess that's what happens when you're the head of a project funded by the Wellcome Trust.