Sarah Hunter

4 Main Bioinformatics Challenges
• Storing data
• Amount of data being generated is increasing dramatically
• Moving data
• Data transfers are not increasing at the same rate as storage
capacity or computing power
• We may need to move compute to data rather than vice versa
• Analysing data
• Improvements in algorithm performance are necessary as well as
utilisation of the latest hardware solutions
• Providing access to data
• Data security is becoming increasingly important
• Use of centralised databases, standards and ontologies allows
easier querying of and access to data
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