Behind the knoSYS 100: Building the Genome Supercomputer
The knoSYS® platform k100 model is featured in Bio-IT World as the “Genome Supercomputer.”
An excerpt:
In a clinical setting, processing and comparing large numbers of genomes is not as important as speed, confidentiality, data protection, and the ability to organize and control revisions. Genome information is confidential data, and clinics are concerned about the risk of exposing private consumer data. While some turn to cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), others want to keep their sensitive patient data behind their firewall.
Ultimately, privacy, security, version control, and transfer speed drove Knome to develop an in-house approach to meet the demands of the newly emerging clinical market. They decided to develop an end-to-end system that would enable a lab to effectively handle the computational and interpretation requirements of next-generation sequencing-based tests within its own facility.