The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2016: Data growth and integration.
The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2016: Data growth and integration.
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DOI：
10.1093/nar/gkv1352
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发表时间：
2016-01-04
影响因子：
14.9
通讯作者：
Apweiler R
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作者：
Cook CE;Bergman MT;Finn RD;Cochrane G;Birney E;Apweiler R
新技术正在彻底改变生物研究及其应用，使其更容易和更便宜地生成更大数量和类型的数据。作为回应，欧洲生物信息学研究所（EMBL-EBI，www.example.com）的服务和基础设施www.ebi.ac.uk正在不断扩大：总磁盘容量每年都在大幅增加，以满足需求（截至2015年12月为75 PB），资源之间的互操作性仍然是一项战略优先事项。自2014年以来，我们推出了两个新的资源：用于遗传变异数据的欧洲变异档案和用于二维电子显微镜数据的EMPIAR，以及资源描述框架平台。我们还推出了Embassy Cloud服务，允许用户在EMBL-EBI庞大的公共数据资源旁边的虚拟环境中运行大型分析。
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.