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Abstract The year 2022 marks the ten‐year anniversary of the White House's Big Data Research and Development Initiative. While this initiative, and the others it spawned, helped to advance the many facets of data intensive research and discovery, obstacles and challenges still exist. If left unaddressed these obstacles will persist and at a minimum limit the potential of what can be achieved by harnessing the many new ways to collect, analyze, and share data and the insights that can be drawn from them. The opportunities and challenges related to Big Data in agriculture touch on all aspects of the general research data lifecycle; from instruments used to gather data, to advanced digital platforms used to store, analyze, and share data, and the innovative insights from using advanced computational methods. The eight papers included in this special issue were chosen in part because they highlight both the challenges and the opportunities that come from all stages of the data lifecycle common across agricultural research and development. These papers grew out of several workshops made possible by the support of the Midwest Regional Big Data Hub, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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Data integration and predictive modeling methods for multi-omics datasets
Abstract Translating data to knowledge and actionable insights is the Holy Grail for many scientific fields, including biology. The unprecedented massive and heterogeneous data have created as many challenges to store, process and analyze as the opportunities and promises they hold. Here, we provide an overview of these opportunities and challenges in multi-omics predictive analytics.
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- PAR ID:
- 10658381
- Publisher / Repository:
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Molecular Omics
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2515-4184
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: p. 8-25
- Size(s):
- p. 8-25
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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