Combating the Life Science Data Avalanche

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-08-11

Summary:

" ... Life science researchers are seeing more next-generation sequencing data generation, more samples and deeper sequencing, and this data is increasing in complexity as researchers move from targeted panels to whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing. However, the tools appearing in the market often fail to incorporate system-level interpretation, leading to further issues. In enters bioinformatics, an interdisciplinary field—including computer science, statistics, mathematics and engineering—which develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As a result, to address the growing size of data, there’s an expansion of tools to take advantage of Cloud computing and storage. Many vendors are developing their own Cloud-enabled software platforms capable of hosting a variety of analysis applications. And while life science researchers want to leverage the Cloud, they only want to do so for the additional functionality it brings, such as access to large data sets, common annotation sources, data sharing and scalable computing—they don’t want to overcome the hassle of uploading unless there’s a real benefit. The other downside to open source solutions, like Cloud computing, is 'tool overload'. 'Tool overload occurs as open source tools rapidly evolve and create downstream problems with version control, validation, security, governance, reporting and data reproducibility,' says Narges Bani Asadi, PhD, Founder and CEO for Bina Technologies. However, with the onset of bioinformatics, multi-omic data sets are increasingly common and tools are being developed to integrate this data, 'sometimes across extremely different file types and software applications,' says Antoni Wandycz, Director, Bioinformatics Solutions, Software & Informatics Div., Agilent Technologies. There has also been an increase in the use of tools for modeling and simulation ..."

Link:

http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2015/08/combating-life-science-data-avalanche

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oa.new oa.comment oa.bioinformatics oa.biomedicine oa.genomics oa.tools oa.floss oa.cloud oa.data oa.open_science

Date tagged:

08/11/2015, 07:41

Date published:

08/11/2015, 03:41