Mx. BIOME: A bioinformatics and big data analysis platform in a data explosion era

With the development of next-generation sequencing and other technologies, there has been an exponential increase in DNA, RNA, and protein sequences and protein structures in the last two decades, paralleled with the advancement of user-friendly bioinformatics tools. Furthermore, the enormous improvement in computational power and accumulation of massive amounts of data has given rise to the development of big data analysis, which can unveil novel patterns, associations, and trends. In view of the unprecedented biological data explosion, we have recently developed a platform known as Mx. BIOME, which provides a collection of some of the most popular and cutting-edge tools in the fields of bioinformatics and big data analysis. Such a collection would facilitate end-users to identify suitable tools for analyzing their specific datasets. Further studies and reviews on various in silico tools are necessary to compare the advantages and limitations.