In the future this data will revolutionise medicine and healthcare. Once a genetic defect is established and the biology understood, then researchers can go about developing therapeutic approaches allowing pharmaceutical companies to design new and more effective drugs to treat these diseases.

The HDL bioinformatics group has designed a gene hunting software system that will enable researchers to quickly, robustly and accurately find the genetic causes of many diseases. This system uses powerful new analysis techniques that use large amounts of computing power. The diagram below shows how the complexity of the analysis will increase over the next 2 to 3 years and the corresponding increase required in the power of the software.