//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_project" title="Genome project">genome projects</a> needed increasingly sophisticated strategies to handle:</p>
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<li><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabytes" title="Terabytes" class="mw-redirect">terabytes</a> of sequencing data which need processing on <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_computing" title="Cluster computing" class="mw-redirect">computing clusters</a>;</li>
<li>identical and nearly identical sequences (known as <i>repeats</i>) which can, in the wors