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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?
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday July 10 2015, @05:50PM
If you're a tax payer and a consumer, you already are.
It's worse than that: whenever you do something that involves data, your profile is monetized. You don't have to consume or pay taxes to be the one footing the bill: you just need to be a warm body that does something.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Friday July 10 2015, @06:32PM
If you're not paying for a service on the internet, chances are you are in fact the product.