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DOE JGI’s use of Isilon scale-out NAS on EarthTimes

Leveraging Isilon’s X-Series, featuring its OneFS® operating system, JGI has unified 25 genome sequencers onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, reducing storage management. The JGI is also using the Isilon IQ 5000S-SSD, which combines SAS and Solid State Disk (SSD) drives as an additional storage resource for its team. With… [Read More]

DOE JGI’s use of Isilon scale-out NAS on San Diego, CA’s CBS 8

Prior to deploying Isilon scale-out NAS, the JGI used more than six network file system (NFS) servers to power its 25 DNA sequencers. As the JGI’s genomic sequencing operations expanded, its NFS servers were unable to scale in-line with demand, fragmenting data across its separate file systems and limiting the performance of both the JGI’s… [Read More]

DOE JGI’s use of Isilon scale-out NAS on redOrbit

By unifying its DNA sequencing operations onto 2PB of the Isilon IQ 72000X, the JGI has centralized data access. With its leading-edge, highly data-intensive R&D work powered by a separate, Isilon IQ 5000S-SSD cluster, the JGI’s DNA sequencing operations have a unified and dedicated storage resource, eliminating data fragmentation and performance bottlenecks to help speed… [Read More]

DOE JGI’s use of Isilon scale-out NAS on PRNewswire

“The JGI’s research is critical to reducing our nation’s dependency on foreign oil and replacing it with new, cleaner and more efficient energy resources,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon Systems. “This research exemplifies the term ‘mission-critical,’ requiring a storage solution with the highest levels of scalability, performance and reliability to ensure it… [Read More]

Dead zone metagenomic study in Newstrack India

Dead zones are areas of low dissolved-oxygen concentrations caused by climate change that play a major role in the ocean ecosystem and global climate balance because they are a source of greenhouse gases and sinks for nitrogen, robbing many ocean life forms of this critical nutrient.   Scientists have observed that the zones – found… [Read More]

Metagenome study in The Montreal Gazette

There is life in the planet’s expanding dead zones, say researchers, who have uncovered a remarkable microbe thriving in toxic waters off the B.C. coast. The bacteria take up carbon dioxide like a plant, consume sulphide that is deadly to most other life forms, and exhale nitrous oxide which is a potent greenhouse gas. The… [Read More]

Dead zone microbe on io9

Researchers have mapped the genome of a microbe that thrives in oxygen-deprived areas of the ocean known as “dead zones.” These creatures are increasing, and their ability to live without oxygen might make them perfect space-dwellers. The article, published today in Science, looks at a microbe known as SUPO5, which lives in areas of the… [Read More]

Marine metagenome study in New Kerala

In a new study, a team of scientists has mapped the genome of a microbe that is a key biological indicator of oceanic dead zones. The study was carried out by a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, along with colleagues at the US Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute. “Microbes specialize… [Read More]

Genomic model research on Huliq

Cavicchioli and his lab compared the traits of S. alaskensis‘ genome against the genome of Photobacterium angustum, a bacterium collected and sequenced from the warmer, nutrient-rich waters off Sydney, Australia. They then tested the model developed based on these two genomes to successfully predict whether several dozen bacterial samples were those that grow in nutrient-rich… [Read More]

Genomic model research on ScienceCentric

‘The method used by Cavicchioli’s group to predict bacterial habits lends credence to the idea that sequencing cultivated organisms is biased toward sequencing those that thrive in nutrient-rich conditions, even though those that get by in nutrient-poor conditions are more abundant in the environment,’ Kyrpides said. ‘Despite the number of microbial genome projects being done,… [Read More]