The Gift of Sound

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In Taiwan, 3‰ to 4‰ of infants are found with hearing loss at birth. That's 700 babies per year, and of 70% of them the cause of the impairment cannot be identified. Fortunately, the era of precision medicine has come. We are now able to run thorough investigations among the haystacks of more than 20,000 human genes, to make comprehensive comparison on genome sequences against the databases, in order to locate the questionable and abnormal sites, for the best possible treatment decisions. With the help of NCHC's supercomputers, screening can be 4 to 6 times faster. Screening is a critical process and a race against time because life and health depend on it. High performance, mass and rapid computing power and storage resources will be the key to the success of Next Generation Sequencing.


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