big data

Open Archive Day

I've now completed my 8th year of features in every issue of Current Biology. Last year I highlighted the very first one in the series (on bees) on the 7th anniversary, so it's only logical to do the second feature this year, which is on the challenges of big data. Then it was mainly about genome and similar data flooding in - now you could also add behavioural data from facebook and everything else.

Riding the wave of biological data