Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?

Genomics is a Big Data science and is going to get much bigger, very soon, but it is not known whether the needs of genomics will exceed other Big Data domains. Projecting to the year 2025, we compared genomics with three other major generators of Big Data: astronomy, YouTube, and Twitter. Our estim...

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Main Authors: Zachary D Stephens, Skylar Y Lee, Faraz Faghri, Roy H Campbell, Chengxiang Zhai, Miles J Efron, Ravishankar Iyer, Michael C Schatz, Saurabh Sinha, Gene E Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-07-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002195