CHICAGO – A Taiwanese bioinformatics startup chose an unusual venue to announce itself to the world and introduce its first product this month: CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show. At the Taiwan Tech Arena Pavilion at CES in Las Vegas last week, GeneASIC Technologies unveiled its decidedly non-consumer-facing Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis Acceleration Platform (NGSAAP), a combination hardware-software product that promises to conduct secondary analysis on 30X whole-genome sequencing data in about 30 minutes, thanks to hardware acceleration and proprietary algorithms. A forthcoming companion product will support secondary analysis of long-read sequences. GeneASIC went to CES for several reasons,...