[gbveiuwlbiu]

When you say compute time, do you have in mind purely quantitative processing/analytics, or streaming and data transfer?

Is there any way you could describe a sample "experiment" and the associated storage costs and compute time, just a paper-and-pencil estimation perhaps?

[zitterbewegung]

I went to a python talk where the guy did genomics . I asked him how long his program would take and he said I'll tell you when it's done. This means his analysis programs can take days to weeks and he really didn't know how long the current one can take .

[akuchling]

Possibly C. Titus Brown? Here's his PyCon 2014 talk, "Data intensive biology in the cloud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRbfKK57X8