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Genotyping and Statistical Genetics Archiving
The Center of Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) at Johns Hopkins University is a centralized facility providing genotyping and statistical genetics services for investigators seeking to identify genes that contribute to human disease. The CIDR is a high throughput genotyping lab for NIH-funded principal investigators and can generate thousands of Gigabytes of data daily performing genetic analyses.
Finding technology that wouldn't deplete the budget was a big issue for the CIDR. "We're well-funded, but we can't go out and buy a system from EMC or Hitachi to do this," according to Lee Watkins, Jr., the center's director of Bioinformatics. Having an affordable, high-performance and scalable CAStor storage cluster helps meet CIDR's requirements of efficiently storing 1TB of new data weekly or even daily. CIDR can generate as much as 2.5TB of new data each day when operating at full capacity.
Customer Benefits
- Decreased cost of storage infrastructure
- Reduced management and administrative costs with self-managing, self-healing CAStor cluster
- Throughput performance required for data analysis as well as capability for long-term archiving
- Seamless upgrade of hardware and capacity expansion without impacting production
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