Big Data access and infrastructure for modern biology: case studies in data repository utility

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1387; no. 1; pp. 112 - 123
• Main Authors: Boles, Nathan C., Stone, Tyler, Bergeron, Charles, Kiehl, Thomas R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Access to Information; Animals; Big Data; Biomedical Research - methods; Biomedical Research - trends; Case studies; cloud computing; Cloud Computing - trends; Computer Communication Networks - instrumentation; Computer Communication Networks - trends; data analysis; Data Mining - methods; Data Mining - trends; Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; electrophysiology; gene expression; Genomics - methods; Genomics - trends; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Internet; Researchers; Software; Systems Biology - instrumentation; Systems Biology - methods; Systems Biology - trends; Big Data; data analysis; electrophysiology; cloud computing; gene expression

Big Data is no longer solely the purview of big organizations with big resources. Today's routine tools and experimental methods can generate large slices of data. For example, high‐throughput sequencing can quickly interrogate biological systems for the expression levels of thousands of differ...