Big Data Capacity and Performance Supports Genome Analytics

When Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich – a world expert in microbiology and a pioneer of metagenomics – and his team set out to create their next generation biotech research platform, they needed a technology solution to support their stringent capacity and performance requirements for big data analytics.

Interview: Datameer Brings End-to-End Data Analytic Solutions Built on Hadoop

“Datameer is all about providing a self-service, end-to-end experience for big data analytics on Hadoop. From data integration to analytics to visualization, we are wizard-led, point-and-click. Most recently we announced our Smart Analytics module, which allows business users to use data mining algorithms through a drag and drop UI. These new capabilities complement what data scientists are doing and enable business analysts to take advantage of advanced algorithms without involving IT.”

Challenges and Solutions for Genomics in the Age of Big Data

Leading researchers in data science and genomics are recommending strategies to help genomic scientists better manage, share, analyze and archive massive research and clinical data sets in an effort to ensure that the big data explosion results in better health outcomes and faster research discoveries.

Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease Announces a Big Data Challenge

Challenge to be first in a series to crowdsource Alzheimer’s data for new disease insights .

Leveraging High Quality Data to Discover Drugs

The IP & Science Business of Thomson Reuters has announced a strategic initiative with NuMedii. The companies will leverage high-quality data, knowledge and predictive technologies to identify therapeutic candidates with the greatest probability for clinical success.

Paper Shows Big Data Fostering Serendipity

Can Big Data be used to foster serendipity? That’s the premise of an award-winning paper in the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge. Entitled “Fostering Serendipity through Big Linked Data” the paper was written by Muhammad Saleem, Maulik R. Kamdar, Aftab Iqbal, Shanmukha Sampath, Helena F. Deus and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo. The amount of bio-medical data available […]

Big Pharma Collaborating On Big Data To Improve Health

In this video, Steve Forbes hosts Sir Andrew Witty from GlaxoSmithKline in a discussion on how data and data sharing is having a profound impact on people’s health around the world. Traditionally, big pharma kept their data and results under lock and key. Now, with a global population impatient to find answers and cures, the industry is working together to affect change.

What Can Hadoop Can Do for Your Big Data Strategy?

For all its agility in handling big data, Hadoop by itself is not a big data strategy.

Obama Initiative Leverages Big Data to Explore the Brain

On Tuesday, April 2, President Obama announced a research initiative that has the ambitious goal of “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain,” according to a White House press release. Know as BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), the initiative is being launched in FY 2014 with an initial budget of about $100 million, […]

Big Data – Quality or Quantity?


In this special guest feature, Anchita Magan from [x]cube DATA writes that the element of quality has to be considered in quantifiable data. Significance of Big Data The entire cosmos has been turned into an aggregated ocean of Data – structured or unstructured, systematic or unsystematic, useful or useless. This zillion of roughly organized data […]