One of the big data problem is to find enough space for a staggering pace of scientists, researchers, governments and private companies to set up data daily quantities.
The fact is that the task we are compounded, and as a record more data than ever before. 2013. study showed that 90 percent of the world's data has been generated over the past couple of years, and it provides immense logistical challenges for those whose occupation is to ensure that the information flowing properly preserved for current and future applications.
So what generates pampers large amounts of information? If you think you might be on YouTube, you're right. Every minute in this service causes people ~ 300 hours of video, and over the years create about 100 petabytes of information (ie 100,000 terabytes if you will). Thankfully, Google does not lack of money, so it is likely to have the resources of coping with such an influx.
But in other areas of data, developers can not be so well prepared. New American Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researchers study shows that the world's fastest-growing areas of data generation, which generates daily amount of data now doubles approximately every 7 months, is genome research.
PLoS Biology, published research suggests that up to 2025., Genome researchers significantly outpace YouTube and Twitter, as well as the current scientific evidence king, astronomy and physics. After 10 years, genetic testing will annually from 2 to 40 Exabyte of information depending on the evolution of the doubling rate. (Still reading - 1 Exabyte to make 1,000 petabytes.)
"For a long time people are talking about really huge, huge things, used the word" astronomical ", the press release said Michael Schatz, study co-author. "But giving incredible data creation rate of growth in the biological sciences, we offer to colleagues in the near future to launch a truly immense big thing to describe the use of an epithet" genome. "
The researchers say that the current level of genomic data, about 25 PB, it is easy to cope, but do not forget that relatively few people in their genomes are scanned. However, there are signs that this will change, and it is expected that all their genome over the next decade will scan 1 billion people, mainly in rich countries.
Although a similar time of genetic testing is expected to be a huge medical benefits, it seems, the problem of data scientists just beginning.
Genome research is completely rules of the game changing science, "said Schatz. "With my colleagues we say that it is important to think about the future, that we are ready to it."
