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Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Clarity "Challenge"

The Challenge sponsored by the Children's Hospital in Boston: "Competition participants will get de-identified genome sequences (from Life Technologies and Complete Genomics, which are sponsors of the challenge) and clinical summaries covering three children and their families. The children all have a rare disease with a suspected genetic component. The teams will aim to get from that [sequencing] data to the root cause of the disease, and to present their findings in a clinically meaningful report."

What is interesting is the amount of the award - it is only 25K. It suggests that the challenge isn't much of one.