Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation have developed a cloud-based tool to look for the needle in a haystack in what they have described as the "datafication of everything"
To explain the sheer scale of the data problem, Bauer said although there were estimates of two exabytes of data on YouTube and one exabyte on Twitter by 2025, there would be 20 exabytes of genomic data by that time, generated as people sought better health outcomes.
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