“Genomics and other medical and health research areas are producing some gigantic data sets. To use them in research, scientists need access to these data sets. They’re too big to copy and distribute. So the National Institutes of Health hopes to establish what it calls a data commons in the cloud. It’s enlisted the help of researchers and industry to design the commons and how it might work. Alastair Thomson, chief information officer at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the NIH cloud project.” Run time 22 min. Listen here.
Source: Alastair Thomson: Establishing NIH cloud server to host large amount of data – By Tom Temin, February 9, 2018.
