Friday, 3 August 2018

bioinformatics - What exactly are computers used for in DNA sequencing?



I've thoroughly read the Wikipedia article on DNA sequencing and can't get one thing.


There's some hardcore chemistry involved in the process that somehow splits the DNA and then isolates its parts.


Yet DNA sequencing is considered to be a very computationally-intensive process. I don't get what exactly is being computed there - what data comes into computers and what computers compute specifically.


What exactly is being computed there? Where do I get more information on this?




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