Seq: a high-performance language for bioinformatics

The scope and scale of biological data are increasing at an exponential rate, as technologies like next-generation sequencing are becoming radically cheaper and more prevalent. Over the last two decades, the cost of sequencing a genome has dropped from 100 million to nearly 00-a factor of over 106-and the amount of data to be analyzed has increased proportionally. Yet, as Moore's Law continues to slow, computational biologists can no longer...