SINGAPORES BIOMED GRID BMG

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SINGAPORES BIOMED GRID (BMG) PRESENTATION TO
PRAGMA 11-12 MARCH SAN DIEGO Larry Ang
BioInformatics Institute Larry_at_bii-sg.org
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• NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
• BIOMEDICAL INDUSTRY A MATTER OF SURVIVAL
• OVER-DEPENDENCE ON MANUFACTURING
• ABUNDANCE OF IT EXPERTISE
• STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF IPR
• ENGLISH LANGUAGE A GREAT ASSET TO SINGAPORE
• ? CANNOT FAIL

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• GOALS
• CREATE A BIOMED R D HUB

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• Need to strongly support PRAGMA
• Build strong community
• Create linkages
• Increase efficiency through international
  collaboration
• Forge economy of scale e.g. aggregation data
  traffic between Asia and USA.

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• BIIS MISSION
• National research and training Institute within a
  collaborative, multi-disciplinary, inclusive
  framework.
• To develop expertise with broad and deep
  knowledge of biology and information technology,
  to advance biomedical RD in Singapore.

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• RESEARCH FOCUS
• Computational Biology Genomics
• Systems Biology
• Genetics
• Medical Imaging
• Theoretical Mathematical Biology
• Grid Computing

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• POSTGRADUATE TEACHING
• MSc in Bioinformatics (with NUS) starts Jul 02
• First batch - 30 scholarship students,
• GRID COMPUTING TRAINING PROGRAM
• First batch of 60 graduates to be trained for one
  year SDSC sending 4 trainers for a one week .
• Second batch of 60 - 2003

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• KEY CHALLENGE
• integrate genomic and clinical data to advance
  biomedical RD
• BOTTOM LINE
• We want to advance biomedicine NOT computing per
  se!

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• Demands in High Performance Computing-
• Tera-scale CPU requirements
• Peta-scale data storage management
• Tera-scale data networking
• Security
• Bioinformatics Expertise!

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• National Tissue Repository
• reliable databases and strong data
  confidentiality.
• National Disease Registary
• Set up by MOH in collaboration with healthcare
  institutions and research institutes in
  Singapore.
• Database on cardiac, diabetes, myopia, cancer,
  renal etc. disease for healthcare planning and a
  platform for epidemiological studies of prevalent
  diseases in this region,
• When fully operational, will integrate all
  registries creating new opportunities for
  scientific and clinical RD.

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s i t e
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s i t e
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v i b r a n c y SKY LINKS
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• BioMed Grid Task Force
• Set up for planning and coordinating
  implementation of IT infrastructure for the
  Biopolis and the BioMed Grid
• Committees include
• HPC
• Communications
• Security
• Software
• User needs

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• BioMed Grid Test Beds
• Goal To gain expertise and train manpower to
  meet future needs for biomedical RD.
• Linux Clusters in BII, NUS
• Part of the new Consortium Called Gelato to push
  open source development on Linux clusters on the
  Grid environment.
• (Gelato involves UIUC, Waterloo, BII, HP Labs,
  Tsing Hua, NSW)
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• These nodes will serve as initial test beds for
  the BioMed Grid Project

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• Conceptual view of the BioMed Grid

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