Bioinformatics platform of Rennes
Expertise
The GenOuest platform offers a full range of services in bioinformatics: expertise, development, training, computing resources. It focuses mainly on calculation methods (grid, GPU architectures, cloud), and also on management of biological data and metadata. Strong interactions with the environmental genomics platform and the medical genomics platform of Biogenouest have enabled the development of expertise in high-throughput sequencing. Close collaborations with the project teams of IRISA/INRIA also enable the GenOuest platform to offer new tools for acceleration of NGS data handling.
Equipments
The GenOuest platform offers several clusters for bioinformatics processing :
- Traditional 500-core cluster with 2 TB of memory
- Private cloud of 220 cores for experimentation : http://genocloud.genouest.org
- Storage space 270 TB (high performance: 110 TB and NFS : 160 TB) for the cluster, 30 TB for the cloud
Main Achievements
The platform is engaged in development of the BioMAJ tool (http://biomaj.genouest.org) for the update of sequencing data banks.
It deployed a first virtual research environment combining the HubZero collaborative portal, the ISAtools metadata management environment and the Galaxy portal. These developments were carried out as part of the e-Biogenouest project (https://www.e-biogenouest.org).
Certification / Quality Assurance
The GenOuest platform is ISO9001 certified (since May 2008).
Plateform Managment
Olivier Collin
IRISA/INRIA Plateforme GenOuest
Campus de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes cedex, France
Contacts
Olivier Collin : olivier.collin@irisa.fr
02 99 84 72 78
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