If storage is cheap enough, and abstract, we can expect there to be a thriving ecosystem of tools to apply to it. They don&#x27;t even need to be embedded in a single platform, but could be distributed, streaming, and on-demand.<p>Here are two examples from the iobio project.<p>A heads-up display describing a BAM (alignment) file streaming between two remote servers:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bam.iobio.io&#x2F;?bam=http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;iobio&#x2F;NA12878&#x2F;NA12878.autsome.bam&amp;region=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bam.iobio.io&#x2F;?bam=http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;iobio&#x2F;NA128...</a><p>Streams another BAM from the 1000 Genomes project through two variant callers, with dynamically-updated statistics about the results. You can modify the variant quality threshold for each caller and the results are recomputed in real time:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;iobio.io&#x2F;demo&#x2F;variantcomparer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;iobio.io&#x2F;demo&#x2F;variantcomparer&#x2F;</a><p>Edit:<p>Very nice visualization of interesting statistics from a VCF file, provided by URL or uploaded:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcf.iobio.io&#x2F;?vcf=http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;vcf.files&#x2F;ALL.wgs.phase3_shapeit2_mvncall_integrated_v5.20130502.sites.vcf.gz" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcf.iobio.io&#x2F;?vcf=http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;vcf.files&#x2F;A...</a>