Human Longevity Inc Brad Perkins: Genomics Close to a Breakthrough | Health | WIRED

A "supercharged" approach to human genome research could see as many health breakthroughs made in the next decade as in the previous century, says Brad Perkins, chief medical offer at Human Longevity Inc.
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"I don’t have a pill" to boost human lifespan, Perkins admitted on stage at WIRED Health 2015. But he has perhaps the next best thing -- data, and the means to make sense of it. Based in San Diego, Human Longevity is fixed on using genome data and analytics to develop new ways to fight age-related diseases.

Perkins says the opportunity for humanity -- and Human Longevity -- is the result of the convergence of four trends: the reduction in the cost of genome sequencing (from $100m per genome in 2000, to just over $1,000 in 2014), the vast improvement in computational power, the development of large-scale machine learning techniques and the wider movement of health care systems towards ‘value-based’ models. Together these trends are making it easier than ever to analyse human genomes at scale.

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