Fig. 2

Data volume growth in genomics versus other disciplines. a Data volume growth in genomics in the context of other domains and data infrastructure (computing power and network throughput). Continuous lines indicate the amount of data archived in public repositories in genomics (SRA), astronomy (Earth Data, NASA), and sociology (Harvard dataverse). Data infrastructure such as computing power (TOP500 SuperComputers) and network throughput (IPTraffic) are also included. Dashed lines indicate projections of future growth in data volume and infrastructure capacity for the next decade. b Cumulative number of datasets being generated for whole genome sequencing (WGS) and whole exome sequencing (WES) in comparison with molecular structure datasets such as X-ray and electron microscopy (EM). PDB Protein Data Base, SRA Sequence Read Archive