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Day 5: Big Data
Celebrating Biology Week 2016
The world's technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s. As a result, Big Data sets are increasing in size, as is the need to be able to effectively analyze them.
Whether it be a genome sequencing study or global health records, Big Data requires a set of techniques and technologies to reveal insights from datasets that are diverse, complex, and of a massive scale. Through analysis, storage, and visualization of such mass data, new connections can be made between previously disparate pieces of information, and new inroads can be forged in areas previously unexplored.
Today, we present our top Big Data-related research and invite you to test your Big Data knowledge with our online quiz.
Big Data Quiz
Blog Posts
NEW JOURNAL -- Big Data Analytics
Big Data promises to revolutionize research across a spectrum of issues. Read our Q&A with Editor-in-Chief, Amir Hussain, celebrating the launch of this new journal. Then check out Anwaar Ali & Junaid Qadir's guest blog on Big Data's potential to influence human development.
Read our Top Big Data Articles
Featured Articles from BioMed Central Journals
From Genome Biology
From Genome Medicine
- Making sense of big data in health research: Towards an EU action plan
- Taming the genome: towards better genetic test interpretation
- Extracting a low-dimensional description of multiple gene expression datasets reveals a potential driver for tumor-associated stroma in ovarian cancer
From GigaScience
- A picture is worth a thousand data points: an imagery dataset of paired shrub-open microsites within the Carrizo Plain National Monument
- The genome of the largest bony fish, ocean sunfish (Mola mola), provides insights into its fast growth rate
- Second-generation PLINK: Rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets
- Streaming algorithms for identification of pathogens and antibiotic resistance potential from real-time MinIONTM sequencing
- Genome sequence of the olive tree, Olea europaea
From Algorithms for Molecular Biology
- BicNET: Flexible module discovery in large-scale biological networks using biclustering
- Algorithmic approaches to protein-protein interaction site prediction
From Big Data Analytics
- Leveraging big data in population health management
- The emerging era of Big Data Analytics
- Semantic indexing with deep learning: a case study
From BioData Mining
- Detecting gene-gene interactions using a permutation-based random forest method
- Towards a phenome-wide catalog of human clinical traits impacted by genetic ancestry
From Genetics Selection Evolution
From Plant Methods
From Source Code for Biology and Medicine
- Implementation of the Rank-Weighted Co-localization (RWC) algorithm in multiple image analysis platforms for quantitative analysis of microscopy images
- LocusTrack: Integrated visualization of GWAS results and genomic annotation
For more Big Data articles visit our website and access thousands of open access articles!
Biology Week 2016 Big Data has been curated by Joseph Hasan and Tim Sands.
Featured Articles from BMC Series
From BMC Bioinformatics
- DNAism: exploring genomic datasets on the web with Horizon Charts
- A hybrid computational strategy to address WGS variant analysis in >5000 samples
- HPG pore: an efficient and scalable framework for nanopore sequencing data
- From the desktop to the grid: scalable bioinformatics via workflow conversion
From BMC Genomics
- Graph mining for next generation sequencing: leveraging the assembly graph for biological insights
- LOGIQA: a database dedicated to long-range genome interactions quality assessment
For more Big Data articles visit our website and access thousands of open access articles!