Logo

Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network Deploys Sun IT Infrastructure

Nov 13, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sun Microsystems said today that the Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network is using a range of Sun technologies, including the Sun Constellation System, Solaris 10 Operating System, and Sun CoolThreads servers.
 
Sun said that the OCBN is working with the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory at Queen's University to add bioinformatics capabilities to HPCVL's compute cluster, which includes Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 servers with multi-core UltraSPARC T2 processors, Sun said.
 
OCBN is a non-profit that was established in 2005 with a grant from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation for the purpose of advancing biomarker research.
 
Financial terms of the agreement with Sun were not provided.

Filed under

Informatics
Breaking News
The Scan

Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.

Algorithm Teases Out Genetic Ancestry in Individuals at Biobank Scale

Researchers develop an algorithm known as Rye to tease apart ancestry fractions in admixed individuals at a biobank-scale, applying it to 488,221 UK Biobank participants in Nucleic Acids Research.

Multi-Ancestry Analysis Highlights Comparable Common Variants at Complex Trait-Linked Loci

Researchers in Nature Genetics examine common variants implicated in more than three dozen conditions, estimating genetic effect similarities across ancestry tracts in admixed individuals.

Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.