August 10, 2012 | C. Titus Brown heads MSU’s lab for Genomics, Evolution, and Development, which recently undertook the task of researching large collections of data centered around the genomes of soil-based microbes. The project was so complex, however, that it toppled the systems designed to crunch the big microbial data. So Brown’s team did what researchers do best—they fashioned a solution to solve a specific problem. Datanami