Fig. 1

(Kryder’s law) Exponential growth of neuroimaging and genomics data, relative to increase of number of transistors per chip (Moore’s law) [21]. The misalignment between rate of increase of computational power and volume of data is the result of rapid technological advances improvements in data resolution, streaming efficiency and censoring equipment. By 2015 more than a 106 whole human genomes will be sequenced totaling over 100 PB and many neuroimaging studies will generate over 1 TB of data daily