we see here another demonstration of my Web 2.0 principle that “data is the Intel Inside”, and that many of the future battles between industry giants will be around who owns data, rather than who controls software APIs. In that battle, we’ll see deployed all kinds of techniques to “harness collective intelligence” to build added value databases of various kinds.”

Google now has a free 411 phone service which he suspects is a vehicle for harvesting voice data to train speech recognition and translation software. It makes perfect sense.

This is why I think data mining is an integral part of drug discovery. Can you sell a specific decision support system for therapeutic targets? How much is a proprietary data warehouse of experimental data worth?

The explosive data acquisition rate of modern life sciences is overwhelming our ability to interpret it. Perhaps Google had a good strategy for data integration prior to opening the floodgates of this 411 service. What’s clear is that Google knows information is worth money and they are more than willing to roll out great free services in order to get it from you.

Describe The Impact of Cyberinfrastructure on Your World

Cyberinfrastructure-

new research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over the Internet. In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge.

I do not know know the details of how TeraGrid works, but this is the prompt for a TeraGrid ’07 student competition. I think Science blogging would be an interesting topic, or things such as feed readers and social bookmarking. TeraGrid is about uniting supercomputing sites, but I think it still lacks social or collaborative aspects that would make it much more powerful.