Bioinformatics has seen an extreme data growth in later years due to the reduction in cost per megabase of sequencing, which today is around 1/400,000th of the cost in 2001. This reduction in cost enables new types of studies, such as searching for novel enzymes in marine environments using metagenomic approaches. However, it also leads to an increase in volume of data, which shifts overall cost ...

Genomics is the study of the genomes of organisms. Metagenomics is the study of environmental genomic samples. For both genomics and metagenomics DNA sequencing, and the analysis of these sequences, is an important tool. This analysis is done through integration of sequence data with existing meta-data collections. Genomics is the study of the genomes of organisms, and involves cultivating organisms ...

A large up-to-date compendium of integrated genomic data is often required for biological data analysis. The compendium can be tens of terabytes in size, and must often be frequently updated with new experimental or meta-data. Manual compendium update is cumbersome, requires a lot of unnecessary computation, and it may result in errors or inconsistencies in the compendium. We propose a transparent ...