There is no doubt that the ongoing avalanche of sequencing data will advance functional genomics studies [ 134, 135], human disease studies [ 136], population genetics studies [ 137], metagenomics [ 138], clinical diagnosis [ 139], as well as other areas of biomedical importance.
It's a divide-and-conquer approach to making the avalanche of data produced online manageable.
Demographers are bracing for an avalanche of data, while others predict a raft of court cases challenging redistricting.
Often, it is the small, apparently trivial sign lost in the avalanche of data that forewarns of a coming threat.
Now, with the Internet, wireless sensors, and the capability to analyze an avalanche of data, a person's profile can be drawn without monitoring him or her directly.
How do they avoid undue distraction while spotting useful signals amid an avalanche of data?
Cell biology is being inundated by an avalanche of data from the genomics and proteomics enterprises.
This field of spatial epidemiology has benefitted from the avalanche of data now coming from Earth observing satellites.
The attack was able to generate such an avalanche of data that it completely overwhelmed the network.
"It's an irony that this was called Landslide because it provided the police with an avalanche of data," says David Wall, professor of criminology at the University of Durham.
