Genome Biology | Abstract | Churchill: an ultra-fast, deterministic, highly scalable and balanced parallelization strategy for the discovery of human genetic variation in clinical and population-scale genomics

While advances in genome sequencing technology make population-scale genomics a possibility, current approaches for analysis of this data rely upon parallelization strategies that have limited scalability, complex implementation and lack reproducibility. Churchill, a balanced regional parallelization strategy, overcomes these challenges, fully automating the multiple steps required to go from raw sequencing reads to variant discovery. Through imp…

 

2 London, Ont., patients with Ebola-like symptoms from Kitchener-Waterloo

The London Health Sciences Centre says two patients had been admitted to the southwestern Ontario city’s Victoria Hospital with Ebola-like symptoms. London’s medical officer of health notes the two are ‘very low risk’ of having the disease, which is plaguing West Africa and hasn’t been confirmed in Canada.

 

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The most important story of 2014 that most people ignored was the Chinese economy overtaking the US economy.  (This is using the purchasing power parity metric, which incorporates differences in…