Biology and Informatics: Waiting for the Third Breakthrough?

... is divided into short fragments (composed of several hundred letters-nucleotides) that are quickly read by some physicochemical method. Thus, the human genome is represented as a file with dozens of millions of short fragments. The Third Impact in bioinformatics is associated by many with what is called Big Data. However, new technologies are developing, and the Oxford Nanopore approach appears to be one of the most promising. This technology is now being tested and has already attracted the attention of not only scientists, but the media too. The technology ...