NGS informatics catching up to clinical demands
November 2014—When Birgit H. Funke, PhD, gave a talk earlier this year on incorporating bioinformatic tools and pipelines into medical NGS, at Molecular Medicine Tri-Con 2014, one of her slides showed the main bioinformatics activities needed to support sequencing. Among them were designing and building pipelines to manage genetic data, writing scripts for data analysis pipelines, and building custom applications.