The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel
Mackay, Richards et al., Nature
North Carolina State University's Trudy Mackay and her colleagues present the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel, "a community resource for analysis of population genomics and quantitative traits."
Washington University Genome Center Receives $14M in Stimulus Funds
March 11, 2010
Thanks to a $14.3M grant courtesy of the The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by way of the National Center for Research Resources, Washington University's Genome Center will be expanding its entire data center, which is now at about 80-90% capacity. Washington University is also shelling out $8M of its own money to extend the data center's capabilities and double its size to some 32,000 square feet. The Genome Center's data center currently houses some 5,000 computer processors with more than 5 petabytes of storage.
David Dooling, who oversees the Analysis Developers, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), and the Information Systems groups at The Genome Center, told us that they are still evaluating exactly how they will go about equipping the expanded facility. He says they are currently in the process of assessing aspects of data design such as cooling and electrical configurations, so the expanded parts of the data center could be different from the original facility's infrastructure.
Click here for a some pics of the construction.
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