The Vital-IT HPC and the Swiss-Prot group

Authors

  • Laurent Falquet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14806/ej.17.B.259

Keywords:

next generation sequencing, COST, Vital-IT

Abstract

http://www.vital-it.ch/

Biomedical research requires increasing computing power to analyse the huge amounts of data researchers accumulate using high-throughput technologies. However computing power itself is not sufficient, the joint knowledge and expertise of qualified bioinformaticians, statisticians, and IT specialists is essential to provide an efficient support to large-scale projects in biology. Vital-IT is a High Performance Center dedicated to support biological projects within Switzerland. In conjunction with the Swiss-Prot group in Geneva, it forms a unique entity providing both infrastructure and a set of experts in all fields required by modern biology projects. A few examples of genome assembly projects are presented.

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Relevant Web sites
4. http://www.vital-it.ch/
5. http://www.isb-sib.ch/

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Published

2012-02-28

Issue

Vol. 17: Supplement B

Section

Oral Presentations

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