The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2016: Data growth and integration

New technologies are revolutionising biological research and its applications by making it easier and cheaper to generate ever-greater volumes and types of data. In response, the services and infrastructure of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, www.ebi.ac.uk) are continually expanding:...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Cook, Charles E., Bergman, Mary Todd, Finn, Robert D., Cochrane, Guy, Birney, Ewan, Apweiler, Rolf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Database Issue
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4702932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26673705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv1352
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Sumario:New technologies are revolutionising biological research and its applications by making it easier and cheaper to generate ever-greater volumes and types of data. In response, the services and infrastructure of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, www.ebi.ac.uk) are continually expanding: total disk capacity increases significantly every year to keep pace with demand (75 petabytes as of December 2015), and interoperability between resources remains a strategic priority. Since 2014 we have launched two new resources: the European Variation Archive for genetic variation data and EMPIAR for two-dimensional electron microscopy data, as well as a Resource Description Framework platform. We also launched the Embassy Cloud service, which allows users to run large analyses in a virtual environment next to EMBL-EBI's vast public data resources.

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