Biology is becoming a more quantitative science, a trend that has motivated and been recently spurred by advances in computing power and data-gathering technologies. Nowhere is this clearer than in issues at the forefront of integrative and environmental biology. These include central questions in natural resource management, restoration and environmental monitoring, genomics and proteomics, genotype-phenotype mapping, management for invasive species, disease transmission in animals and plants regulation of genetically modified organisms, ecological forecasting, animal behavior, and neuroscience.