The size of the genomics market was estimated at a little more than $11 billion in 2013 and is going to grow faster than anyone could imagine. Ronald W. Davis, director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center and professor of biochemistry and genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine, likens the state of genomics today to that of e-commerce in 1994, the year Amazon was founded and before the founders of Google had even begun working, as students, on Internet search. In addition to the falling cost of sequencing,
