Researcher at the Sidra Medical Center in Qatar. <\/p>\n
IBM has announced a new healthcare-focused collaboration with Qatar's Sidra Medical and Research Center. <\/p>\n
Sidra is a biomedical research hospital and educational institution that's spearheading the Qatar Genome Program (QGP), one of the world's largest national genome medical research projects. <\/p>\n
Sidra will now use IBM technology as the compute and storage infrastructure for the research center. Specifically, IBM's flash storage systems and software-defined infrastructure will be used to manage and store clinical genome sequencing data as well as provide Sidra's technology infrastructure capabilities that underpin the project. <\/p>\n
\"Analyzing hundreds of samples in parallel on a regular basis requires a robust HPC system to handle the load properly,\" said Dr. Mohamed-Ramzi Temanni, manager of the Bioinformatics Technical Group at Sidra. \"The Sidra and IBM work effort is unique -- it was a joint collaboration between our bioinformatics experts who led the complex analysis component and built the pipelines while IBM customized the system to ensure best performance and ease of use.\" <\/p>\n
In a similar collaboration, IBM announced that it's working with the University of Michigan's non-profit tranSMART Foundation to optimize its translational research platform, which is used by scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data. <\/p>\n
IBM said the Foundation is using Power8 servers at the university for research and development and to host its web-based training for the tranSMART platform. These servers also serve as a public showcase of the foundation's open-source, open-data, and open-science approach to translational research. <\/p>\n
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