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project info
Start date: 1 January 2016
End date: 31 December 2018
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 918 456,00 €
EU contribution: 739 908,10 € (80,56%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.

Data Storage and Protection System

In 2015 SCBI acquired a state-of-the-art ultrasequence (NextSeq from Illumina manufacturer). This request was endorsed by 23 research groups of six Andalusian IPOs, with the principal investigator Dr. Emilio Alba, Professor of Oncology at the UMA and Director of the Oncology Unit Intercenters of the province of Malaga, which brings together the two large hospitals in the province (Regional Hospital and Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria) where 5000 new cancer cases are diagnosed per year._x000D_ _x000D_ It is urgent for SCBI to have a storage system that guarantees the safety of clinical data over a period of 10 years. In addition, it must be of high capacity and reliability. Only for cancer research groups will require about two Petabytes of storage over the next five years._x000D_ _x000D_ The objective of the project is to equip the SCBI (Supercomputing and Bioinnovation Center) with a high-security, capacity and long-lasting storage system, based on ObjectStore technology, to preserve biological data from patients diagnosed with cancer.

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