Cloud storage to enable massive cancer cell database
November 7, 2012
Grazed from FierceHealth IT. Author: Susan D. Hall.
Johns Hopkins researchers are relying on cloud storage of thousands of cell samples to discern the most effective treatment for cancer patients. Supported by a five-year, $3.75 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the project aims to help physicians better predict how cancer will behave, since it can spread rapidly in one patient and glacially in another.
The team of experts in cancer and engineering are creating a database of samples collected through a process called high-throughput cell phenotyping, according to an announcement. The data is stored on computers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory…
Denis Wirtz, a Johns Hopkins professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and associate director of the university’s Institute for NanoBio Technology, explained that the project goes beyond storing pictures of the size and shape of cancer cells…
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