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This article from MIT Technology Review talks about using bioinformatics technology to analyze video. Specifically using genetic sequencing techniques to analyze video. The article goes on to say that the amount and types of data in video is similar to that of genetic data. This brings me to question, would algorithms for computer vision be useful in decoding genomic information?

Normally processing computer vision is daunting all by itself but recent advancements might change that. For example this article in Wired Magazine discusses how David O’Carroll, a computational neuroscientist at Australia’s University of Adelaide has uncovered the underlying neural algorithms in fly vision. He goes on to say that using these algorithms would make computer vision processing far more efficient.

Now take the idea of comparing genomic data to video and send a genome through this fly vision algorithm. What would come out the other side? Would genetic abnormalities become evident far easier?

Now that would be quite a research paper!