A new platform called IDseq is meant to help the world's disease detectives diagnose mysterious illnesses more easily. Here's my piece on why it's important, and the likely challenges ahead.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/dashboard-disease-detectives/573034/?utm_source=twb …
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Absolutely. It’s the deployment and availability of sequencing and reagents that is key however, not the software
Agreed. Also, for the software I have a hard time seeing what's new here? It's all pre-existing tools wrapped into a website (that I can't access). E.g. Taxonomer from IDbyDNA has been available for years (and is very fast with immediate results): https://www.taxonomer.com/
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Yeah I note this in the piece. They argue that the differences are in how intuitive the front end is and how robust the back end is. But I think the key diff is: for better or worse, this is the one that funders are backing.
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No particular issue with IDseq concetually but it would be a terrible mistake to focus on any particular software package or method in such a rapidly developing and unvalidated field ...
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