When you’re dealing with petabytes of scientific data, getting it all into the cloud can take time. But once it’s there, running experiments on your data from anywhere in the world is simple — and all you need to download are your results. Convincing researchers to embrace this paradigm shift, though, can take the support of partners across the organization and beyond, as Keith Perry, senior vice president and CIO at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, has learned.
St. Jude is working to map the genetics of childhood cancers as part of its search for cures. It uses genetic sequencing to determine the whole genome sequences — essentially all of the DNA — of its patients’ healthy cells, and also of their tumors. Comparing the two, and also the genomes of other patients with similar cancers, can provide vital clues to a cure.
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