From Molecules To The Milky Way: Dealing With The Data Deluge

November 9, 2007 | Source: Science Daily

CSIRO Australia has a new research program aimed at helping science and business cope with masses of data from areas like astronomy, gene sequencing, surveillance, image analysis and climate modelling.

The research program, which began this year, is called “Terabyte Science” and is named for the data sets that start at terabytes (thousands of gigabytes) in size, which are now commonplace.