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Again With the IT Demands?

Apr 03, 2007

A post on ZDNet offers a Q&A with Peter Covitz, COO of the NCI Center for Bioinformatics, about the Cancer Genome Atlas. And no, we're not still talking about the scientific merit of the multimillion-dollar project; this interview focuses on the IT needs to handle the coming avalanche of data.

For more from Covitz, check out his informatics column in GT's latest issue here.

 

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