"Over the past decade, biotechnology has been the new pampered baby of global industry, but few people think of it in combination with information technology," says Life Sciences Center manager Spencer Wang. Nonetheless, with work on breaking the genetic code moving ahead rapidly, the amount of computer data accumulated about gene sequences worldwide is calculated in the trillions of bytes and is doubling every nine months.
「過去十年，生物技術可以說是全球產業新寵，但很少人把它和資訊業聯想在一起，」IBM 生物資訊科技研發中心經理王聖棨指出，隨著基因解碼工作的快速展開，目前全球基因序列累積的電腦資料數以「兆位元」計，而且還以每九個月增殖一倍的速度累積。