Experiments,observations,andnumericalsimulationsinmanyareasofscienceandbusinessarecurrentlygeneratingterabytesofdata,andinsomecasesareonthevergeofgeneratingpetabytesandbeyond.Analysesoftheinformationcontainedinthesedatasetshavealreadyledtomajorbreakthroughsinfieldsrangingfromgenomics