The information science of microbial ecology

Highlights • Distributed microbial metabolic networks perform essential ecosystem functions. • Next-generation sequencing data may reveal microbial solutions to human problems. • ‘Multi-omics’ data will soon exceed local computational capacity. • Cloud-computing promises scalable data storage and pr...

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Published inCurrent opinion in microbiology Vol. 31; pp. 209 - 216
Main Authors Hahn, Aria S, Konwar, Kishori M, Louca, Stilianos, Hanson, Niels W, Hallam, Steven J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2016
Subjects
Automatic Data Processing - methods
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
Ecosystem
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Information Science - methods
Information Services
Internet
Microbial Consortia - genetics
Pathology
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Summary:Highlights • Distributed microbial metabolic networks perform essential ecosystem functions. • Next-generation sequencing data may reveal microbial solutions to human problems. • ‘Multi-omics’ data will soon exceed local computational capacity. • Cloud-computing promises scalable data storage and processing. • Together ‘multi-omics’ data and cloud-computing enable insight into the microcosmos.
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ISSN:1369-5274
1879-0364
DOI:10.1016/j.mib.2016.04.014