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Genomic Data Growing Faster Than Twitter and YouTube

posted by takyon on Friday July 10 2015, @12:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the social-growth-medium dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

In the age of Big Data, it turns out that the largest, fastest growing data source lies within your cells.

Quantitative biologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in New York, found that genomics reigns as champion over three of the biggest data domains around: astronomy, Twitter, and YouTube.

The scientists determined which would expand the fastest by evaluating acquisition, storage, distribution, and analysis of each set of data. Genomes are quantified by their chemical constructs, or base pairs. Genomics trumps other data generators because the genome sequencing rate doubles every seven months. If it maintains this rate, by 2020 more than one billion billion bases will be sequenced and stored per year, or 1 exabase. By 2025, researchers estimate the rate will be almost one zettabase, one trillion billion bases, per sequence per year.

Cripes, wouldn't you hate to be the guy paying the electricity bill to process that much data?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 10 2015, @01:20PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2015, @01:20PM (#207411) Journal
    my digestive system sequences and processes more than 10^23 bases every day, not electricity required.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @01:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @01:43PM (#207428)

    so my stomach growling is basically its way of saying "all your base are sequence by me". right?

  • (Score: 2) by penguinoid on Saturday July 11 2015, @03:40AM

    by penguinoid (5331) on Saturday July 11 2015, @03:40AM (#207759)

    I bet it does a shitty job of it, though. Food for thought.

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