This issue has gained considerable importance in the past decade with the advent of anti-fraud regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) [10] or the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) [11], which require some form of storage and analysis of log files, such as database transaction history.
However, until now, there has been no easy solution to the problem of storage and analysis of historical run metadata and statistics.
Meanwhile, nobody seems quite sure exactly what the phrase means, beyond a general impression of the storage and analysis of unfathomable amounts of information, but we are assured, over and over, that it's going to be big.
Here we describe UPPNEX, an implementation of such an infrastructure, tailored to the needs of data storage and analysis of NGS data in Sweden serving various labs and multiple instruments from the major sequencing technology platforms.
The study was approved by CNIL under a formal agreement number 999343 (modalities of registration, storage and analysis of epidemiological, clinical and socioeconomic data are available online from: http://www.pasteur-guadeloupe.fr/tb/projects/tuberculose.pdf).pdf
For a number of reasons the processing, storage and analysis of the large numbers of samples required for genomic studies in Africa tends to be located in high-income settings outside Africa.
We therefore consider the 1000 Genomes data as an ideal test data set to evaluate the scalability and performance of canvasDB for storage and analysis of the data from large-scale WGS projects.
The processing of the research, retrieval, storage and analysis of this data is still an emerging sector, but it provides work for evaluation and analysis specialists, as well as for artists.
Big Data platforms allow the storage and analysis of high volumes of data with heterogeneous format from different sources.
