In Pictures: The human face of Big Data

Is a picture is worth a thousand gigabytes? Check out The Human Face of Big Data, a geek-out-worthy coffee-table book

Synthetic Genomics

J. Craig Venter gained fame for sequencing the human genome, but he is now using big data tools to create organisms through gene manipulation. His team at Synthetic Genomics has synthesized an entire bacterial genome and introduced it into a cell – as Venter says, “It was the first self-replicating species on the planet whose parent was a computer.”

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