Hoosiers tap cloud for sequencing

“… Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity is spend­ing $1.5 mil­lion from the National Insti­tutes of Health on…high-end com­put­ing dis­cov­ery tools. The Hoosiers’ Per­va­sive Tech­nol­ogy Insti­tute Dig­i­tal Sci­ence Cen­ter is tar­get­ing cloud com­put­ing to sup­port life sci­ence research.

In addi­tion to bust­ing com­put­ing bot­tle­necks, the cen­ter plans to use the cloud for ana­lyz­ing sequenc­ing data, the vol­ume of which is “one to two orders of mag­ni­tude larger than pos­si­ble with cur­rent com­pu­ta­tional capa­bil­i­ties,” accord­ing to an indus­try arti­cle. Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Microsoft Azure, and other open source soft­ware are expected to be part of the installation.

The center’s research team will part­ner with IU life sci­ence research teams to test the plat­form in such research areas as sequence assem­bly and pop­u­la­tion genomics. Cloud tech­nolo­gies will also be applied to gene fam­ily clus­ter­ing and struc­tural visualization.

The IU work is also sup­ported by the National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion via its Future­Grid exper­i­men­tal super­com­put­ing net­work project.”

- see the arti­cle