The explosion of "big data" has prompted many people to ask the question "How will we store all this data?" And while cloud computing offers the promise of infinite scalability for storage, the Biocep R Project hopes to address two related questions associated with the growth of big data: "How will we analyze all this data?" and, more importantly, "How can we analyze it virtually?"
As the name suggests, the Biocep R Project is built on R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that's described as "the lingua franca of data analysis." But despite its increasing use, R has several shortcomings in terms of standardization, usability and collaboration.
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