Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?

Zachary D. Stephens; Skylar Y. Lee; Faraz Faghri; Roy H. Campbell; Chengxiang Zhai; Miles J. Efron; Ravishankar Iyer; Michael C. Schatz; Saurabh Sinha; Gene E. Robinson

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002195

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Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?

Zachary D. Stephens,

Affiliation Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Skylar Y. Lee,

Affiliation Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Faraz Faghri,

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Roy H. Campbell,

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Chengxiang Zhai,

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology & Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Miles J. Efron,

Affiliation School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Ravishankar Iyer,

Affiliation Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Michael C. Schatz ,

* E-mail: mschatz@cshl.edu (MCS); sinhas@illinois.edu (SS); generobi@illinois.edu (GER)

Affiliation Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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Saurabh Sinha ,

* E-mail: mschatz@cshl.edu (MCS); sinhas@illinois.edu (SS); generobi@illinois.edu (GER)

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology & Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Gene E. Robinson

* E-mail: mschatz@cshl.edu (MCS); sinhas@illinois.edu (SS); generobi@illinois.edu (GER)

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Department of Entomology, and Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?

Zachary D. Stephens,
Skylar Y. Lee,
Faraz Faghri,
Roy H. Campbell,
Chengxiang Zhai,
Miles J. Efron,
Ravishankar Iyer,
Michael C. Schatz,
Saurabh Sinha,
Gene E. Robinson

Published: July 7, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002195

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Ready for an update

Posted by ksebby on 10 Mar 2020 at 20:42 GMT

This is a great article that a lot of people find useful as a reference. Since it was published in 2015 and makes predictions up to 2025 (it is now 2020) it would be great to see an updated version to see how well predictions have held and make new predictions out to 2030.

No competing interests declared.

RE: Ready for an update

mschatz replied to ksebby on 10 Mar 2020 at 21:52 GMT

Thats an interesting idea. Illumina claimed their customers generated 150 petabases of data in 2019 (a 50% year over year increase) so I think our projections are pretty close to accurate. https://www.bio-itworld.c...

-Mike Schatz

No competing interests declared.

RE: RE: Ready for an update

ksebby replied to mschatz on 10 Sep 2020 at 17:03 GMT

Great. Thanks for the reference!

No competing interests declared.

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Ready for an update

Posted by ksebby on 10 Mar 2020 at 20:42 GMT

RE: Ready for an update

mschatz replied to ksebby on 10 Mar 2020 at 21:52 GMT

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