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Advances in enabling technologies: computational a

Genomics could not have progressed without parallel advances in computational ability. The more efficient the sequencing machines became, the more data became available. Researchers wanted not only to store these data, but to be able to search, compare and analyze them - all requiring greater storage capacity and processing power.

 

IBM released the first personal computer in 1982, the same year in which GenBank was launched, with over 600 sequences and 680,000 bases (McCook, 2005; Smith, 1990).