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Genomics England Selects Skyscape To Support 100,000 Genomes Project
December 2015 by Marc Jacob
Skyscape Cloud Services Limited announced that it has
been chosen by Genomics England to deliver Compute-as-a-Service solutions to support
the 100,000 Genomes Project, which aims to make the UK a world leader in genomics
research.
The Project is currently focused on sequencing whole genomes of patients with
certain rare diseases and cancers, where scientists believe they can have the
greatest impact on diagnosis and treatment. Technologies such as cloud computing are
helping to significantly reduce the cost of genome sequencing which will enable
whole genome sequencing to become part of NHS mainstream healthcare in the future.
Key to Genomics England’s decision was Skyscape’s heritage as a trusted UK
government cloud services provider, with the highest possible levels of resilience
and security. Skyscape’s full service catalogue is suitable for all data at
OFFICIAL (including OFFICIAL SENSITIVE) under the Government Security Classification
Policy. Skyscape was also the first cloud provider to achieve N3 aggregator status,
enabling it to better serve the healthcare community.
Genomics England will leverage the Skyscape Compute-as-a-Service platform for the
processing and analysis of genomic data. Genomics England will build a high
performance compute cluster that will drive over 20,000 CPU cores. The Genomics
England solution will utilise Skyscape’s two UK data centres to host a private
cloud and will be available to health and social care organisations via the N3
network.
