SM: What you are saying here is bio medical researchers would benefit from solutions, SaaS maybe, which can take the hard technical side out and enable them to focus on what they are trained to do.

Let me ask you a follow-up question. If you were to give some guidance to entrepreneurs who come from the software service world and want to help provide that infrastructure to the bio medical research community, where would you suggest they begin that exploration? What fields of biomedical science are most active at the cusp of computational modeling and biosciences?

MA: There are probably three areas that I would point entrepreneurs to. One would be this entire industry of sequence analysis and the next-generation sequence analysis. In this genetic sequencing field, there are definitely companies that are focused on this to some degree, but I don’t know if there are any good offers in an SaaS model tying some of these activities into public or private clouds.

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