The Matchmaker Exchange
April 28, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
Some 200,000 people worldwide have had their genomes sequenced, and today it takes about a half hour to accomplish an individual’s sequence. But research interests, commercial propriety, and privacy issues keep genomic data, which could lead to quicker medical benefits, fragmented. To address this a group of organizations in the US, UK and Canada are promoting the exchange of sequencing information—called “the Matchmaker Exchange”—which could expose the monogenic disorders that make up more complex diseases. MORE
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