Development of a high-performance data storage and sharing platform for the NERC/NBAF genomics community.

我们提出了硬件和软件资产，以实现一个强大而安全的基础设施，在利物浦和爱丁堡的NERC生物分子分析设施的合作节点上存储、归档和共享下一代大容量基因组学数据。新的电子基础设施，建立在现有的核心系统，将支持多层存储架构：高效的数据访问本地处理；安全的现场存储；高速文件传输到最终用户、公共存储库（例如欧洲核苷酸档案）和云计算资源（例如cloud Bio-Linux）；以及快速上传数据到NBAF服务器。这些资产将包括网络和服务器附加存储，以及业界领先的aspa文件传输技术，其传输速度比FTP或HTTP快很多倍。

We propose hardware and software assets to implement a robust and secure infrastructure to store, archive, and share next-generation, high volume genomics data at collaborating nodes of the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facilities in Liverpool and Edinburgh. The new e-infrastructure, built on existing core systems, will support a multi-tier storage architecture for: efficient data access for local processing; secure on-site storage; high-speed file transfer to the end user, to public repositories (e.g. European Nucleotide Archive) and to cloud computing resources (e.g. Cloud Bio-Linux); and fast data upload to NBAF servers. The assets will consist of network and server-attached storage, and industry leading Aspera file transfer technology to deliver speeds many times faster than FTP or HTTP.