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storing, and manipulating huge amounts of genomic data will impact the tech-
nologies to be used. Grid technologies (unique configurations of distributed com-
puting) are being explored as mechanisms for manipulating the data, but such
issues as how the knowledge will be extracted from the data repositories and how
it will be represented in usable form present challenges for the development of
new technologies (Kuhn, Wurst, Bott, & Guise, 2006).
If, as many of the participants in the NI2006 Post Congress Conference sug-
gest, one of the major roles of the nurse ...