Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enable the user to map any information that has a geographic component.
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Numeric data may be a few quick statistics that add depth to a report, or it might be a large data set, like the results of survey, that a researcher must analyze to identify trends.
You could think of the difference, roughly, as statistics being numbers that summarize a trend (a macro view of a subject) and data sets being numbers that describe a subject in detail and in which trends can become apparent (a micro view). |
Molecular sequences (DNA, RNA, protein), along with descriptive information, are a major type of data used for research in genomics and related fields. As these fields and their technology progress, new data forms are produced, such as three dimensional images (microarrays) and meta-resources that integrate and provide access to numerous data types, including sequences, maps, the literature, and original data source.
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