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October 14, 2.30-4.00 pm est: THE INTERNET, GENOMICS AND THE DATA DELUGE: INNOVATIONS IN INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS DISCIPLINES

 

A PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT

 

Discuss the latest on C-PET's DATA DELUGE PROJECT with

 

C-PET Deputy Director, Dr. Robert B. Cohen

 

Professor George Weinstock, Associate Director of the Genome Institute, Washington University, St. Louis

 

Dr. Eli Dart of the ESnet Network Engineering Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

 

 

Genomics research is producing vast amounts of data; this is a deluge that could paralyze research unless approaches are developed to manage the new mountain of data. The basic requirement would be to create innovative ways to improve storage and analytic capabilities. The challenge facing genomics is similar to the one that the high energy physics community faced when it needed to deal with the huge data to be produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. High energy physics developed some approaches that might help genomics researchers cope with the data deluge.

 

At the same time, there are significant innovations in computing and software that might provide genomics researchers with innovative ways to expand storage deploy high-bandwidth connections between major research institutes. These innovations could also help tame the data deluge. The main innovations are the emergence of Open Flow [1] technology and the development of GLIF Open Lightpath Exchanges (GOLE). [2]

 

The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET) plans to explore the major dimensions of the data mountain and the possible innovative ways that might help genomics cope with it. Our effort builds on a number of roundtables that C-PET has hosted over the past year to discuss emerging technologies and the policy issues associated with them.


[2]GLIF stands for Global Lambda Integrated Facility. http://www.glif.is/publications/press/20110330.html. The GLIF website at http://www.glif.is/