 Next generation sequencing ( or high @-@ throughput sequencing ) came about due to the ever @-@ increasing demand for low @-@ cost sequencing . These sequencing technologies allow the production of potentially millions of sequences concurrently . The large amount of sequence data available has created the field of genomics , research that uses computational tools to search for and analyze patterns in the full genomes of organisms . Genomics can also be considered a subfield of bioinformatics , which uses computational approaches to analyze large sets of biological data . A common problem to these fields of research is how to manage and share data that deals with human subject and personally identifiable information . See also genomics data sharing . 
