Event

Wednesday 15 October, 19:00

Biology is becoming one of the main users of high performance computing and one of the largest generators of big data. Biological bytes come from two different sources: i) simulation and ii) omics experiments. Simulations are now done in a multi-level scenario, from atomistic resolution to cellular or even organ level.

A simple molecular dynamics simulation can generate multi-giga to terabytes of data, and there are thousands of such simulations being performed everyday around the world. How to standardize, store, organize and mine these data is a major unsolved problem. Omics is however, the major producer of bio-bytes, as sequencers are defeating Moore Law and are generating sequence data at an unprecedented velocity. Peta to Exabyte Omics data not only need to be stored, organized and mined, but should be also shared under strict security and confidentiality rules. Overall, management of Bio data is one of the greatest challenges for computation sciences.