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		wfunction on June 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human ... Yes, please elaborate on what the software engineering effort involves! Is this a bioinformatics thing? What kind of work does it involve? Does it require a strong theoretical background? etc. (Edit: Thanks! Just noticed you added it.)

leeoniya on June 23, 2016 [–]

maybe WRT to https://www.google.com/search?q=genome+sequencing+algorithms which would be needed to find unique patterns among billions of base pairs for CRISPR to target. it's microscopic big data :D

[1] http://benchling.engineering/dna-regex-search/?hn

[2] http://benchling.engineering/optimizing-crispr/

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