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The challenges of integrating multi-omic data sets

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The capability to generate multi-omic data sets raises the issue of resource allocation for data generation versus data curation and integration. The initial experience of researchers shows that the effort required for the latter can be much greater than that for the former.

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Figure 1: Estimation of the relative resource allocation for experiments and for analysis (x axes are shown in log scale).

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  1. Bernhard Palsson and Karsten Zengler are in the Department of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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Palsson, B., Zengler, K. The challenges of integrating multi-omic data sets. Nat Chem Biol 6, 787–789 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.462

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