| Almost every article about the fate of modern drug discovery or information technology in the life science sector begins by describing the challenges resulting from the enormous data deluge. This article is no exception. The human and mouse genomes have been drafted, the rat genome is awaiting its completion in 2003, high throughput technologies in genomics, screening and chemistry have been established, creating massive amounts of data. There are estimates that even the terabyte scale is already off by an order of magnitude, so when people start talking about petabytes of data, science needs to make sense of it. |
