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Nature 440, 409-410 (23 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440409a; Published online 22 March 2006
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2020 Computing: Exceeding human limits
Stephen H. Muggleton1
- Stephen H. Muggleton is in the Department of Computing and the Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College London SW7 2BZ, UK.
Abstract
Scientists are turning to automated processes and technologies in a bid to cope with ever higher volumes of data. But automation offers so much more to the future of science than just data handling, says Stephen H. Muggleton.
The collection and curation of data throughout the sciences is becoming increasingly automated. For example, a single high-throughput experiment in biology can easily generate more than a gigabyte of data per day, and in astronomy automatic data collection leads to more than a terabyte of data per night.
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