Test-tube data

Like all the best ideas, this one was born in a pub. Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) near Cambridge, were pondering what they could do with the torrent of genomic data their research group generates, all of which has to be archived. The volume of data is growing faster than the capacity of the hard drives used to hold it. “That means the cost of storage is rising...

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