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Data overload and the pace of genomic science

by W. Gregory Feero, MD, PhD Articles in several major journals (Nature, Science, etc.) have noted that genomics research has entered an era of data measured in petabytes. For readers who are not used to thinking on the scale of…

by W. Gregory Feero, MD, PhD

Articles in several major journals (Nature, Science, etc.) have noted that genomics research has entered an era of data measured in petabytes.

For readers who are not used to thinking on the scale of Avogadro’s number, peta refers to a number with 15 zeros tagging along. A petabyte is a lot of data—think 250,000 four-gigabyte thumb drives. Now, are you ready …

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Data overload and the pace of genomic science

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