Around the same time that the first draft of the human genome was being completed, IBM announced the development of a new Super Computer capable of performing 7.3 trillion calculations per second on human DNA. The original idea was that greater computing capacity would enable particularized therapies, because we could now turn our attention to individual differences in everything from gene therapy to the delivery of pharmaceuticals.
几乎在人类基因组初稿完成的同时，IBM宣布新的超级计算机研制成功，对人类基因的运算能力提高到每秒73000亿次。人们原先认为计算能力的提高将改进基因治疗的针对性，因为它使我们能根据个体之间的差异安排从基因治疗到处方用药的所有过程。