Restructuring how scientists use computers and what we get out of them. Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols , pp 401-412, Humana Press. Fristensky, B. Network-centric computing in genomics. Biology is scaling up. Even small scale projects will rely on data from large projects.
Collaborative projects require centralized databases and systematic methods for sharing data.
Knowlege is built by constructing relations between different kinds of data. Data is a resource that can be mined. B. Network-centric computing 1. PCs fragment data and make data sharing difficult. In recent years, the isolated lab with a group leader and a few students has given way to megaprojects with many ollaborators sharing data, clones, cultures and strains.