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\nThe new iCORE Chair in Biosystems Informatics<\/b> at the University of Alberta is Dr. Gane Wong.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat he does is process biological information. With the explosion in DNA analysis since the human genome project, biologists are among the biggest users of computational power.\n<\/p>\n

\nThat\u2019s why computer scientists, mathematicians, and even physicists like Dr. Wong are finding their way into biology labs.\n<\/p>\n

\nDr. Wong\u2019s research is focused on making the technology to gather biological data work faster and cost less.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd he says a recent change in technology has taken that improvement from a factor of two per year to a factor of 100.\n<\/p>\n


\nDR. GANE WONG: <\/b>And The technical change is called massive parallelism where they basically instead of doing individual experiments, they capture single DNA molecules on a cover slide and then do millions of experiments. So each molecule becomes a separate experiment on the cover slide. So there was a big factor of 100 improvement in about year. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\nDr. Gane Wong predicts within ten years, the cost of sequencing a human genome will drop from half a million dollars to a mere one thousand.\n<\/p>\n


\nThanks today to iCORE, the Informatics Circle of Research Excellence.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\nI’M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n <\/p>\n

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iCORE, Informatics Circle of Research Excellence<\/a><\/h3>\n

\niCORE was established in October 1999 by the Government of Alberta to foster an expanding community of exceptional researchers in the field of informatics, that is, areas of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, physics, mathematics and other disciplines related to information and communications technology (ICT).\n<\/p>\n

\nAs part of the Government of Alberta’s strategy to create a globally competitive knowledge-based economic sector, iCORE is directing its support to areas in which Alberta has a chance to develop internationally recognized research teams. It is also focusing on areas in which Alberta companies are active, so that intellectual property and valuable knowledge workers resulting from iCORE’s investment will have compelling reasons to stay in Alberta.\n<\/p>\n

\niCORE invests in people of the highest calibre, research scientists who work on fundamental and applied problems in informatics. It operates several grant programs to develop iCORE Chairs at Alberta universities, around which world-class research teams are developed. Since its inception, more than 24 research chairs have been established to focus on emerging areas such as wireless communications, artificial intelligence, and quantum and nanocomputing.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe iCORE principle is simple: exceptional people produce exceptional results.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn January 2010, under the new Alberta Innovation Framework, iCORE was restructured and incorporated into the new provincial agency Alberta Innovates Technology Futures.\n<\/p>\n

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Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-11-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new iCORE Chair in Biosystems Informatics<\/b> at the University of Alberta is Dr. Gane Wong. <\/b> What he does is process biological information. With the explosion in DNA analysis since the human genome project, biologists are among the biggest users of computational power. That\u2019s why computer scientists, mathematicians, and even physicists like Dr. Wong are finding their way into biology labs. (iCORE, The Informatics Circle of Research Excellence)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,60,61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genomics","category-health-and-medicine","category-icore","category-informatics-circle-of-research-excellence","category-information-technology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/184gane_wong.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}