Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Panel Discussion

DNA sequencing is the technology that allows scientists to “read” the genetic sequence of humans, animals, plants, and microbes. But reading DNA is not like reading a book. First, the DNA is broken into millions (or billions) of tiny pieces, which are individually read. We must then use computers to solve a giant jigsaw puzzle (without the picture on the box) and put toget