Scripps Research joins the iRODS Consortium
Scripps Research has become the newest member of the iRODS Consortium, the membership-based organization that leads development and support of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS).
The amount of data produced by biomedical research has increased rapidly over the past few decades. At Scripps Research, scientists using techniques such as cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), other advanced microscopy, genomic sequencing, or nuclear magnetic resonance need ways to effectively manage and store the vast amounts of data produced by these approaches. The High Performance Computing (HPC) core at Scripps Research works with scientists across disciplines, providing compute, storage and archival capabilities. The HPC core is now implementing iRODS within their data management systems.
iRODS is an open-source, policy-based software used by research, commercial, and government organizations around the world. The iRODS software allows you to store, manage and share large amounts of data, including their metadata, between different organizations and platforms and provides a mechanism for defining rules for their storage, processing, and distribution. iRODS is designed to support collaboration, interoperability, and scalability of data infrastructures. The iRODS software has been deployed at thousands of locations worldwide for long-term management of data in various industries such as the oil and gas industry, biosciences, physical sciences, archives, and media and entertainment.
Through the HPC core, data administrators representing each domain—such as cryo-EM, genomics, and more—will be able to use iRODS to manage their data. Once initial analysis is completed, raw data will be automatically moved though iRODS to more cost-effective archival storage, while remaining accessible to users when needed.
"We are very happy to welcome Scripps Research and their impressive history of scientific discovery to the Consortium." says Terrell Russell, Executive Director of the iRODS Consortium. "We look forward to helping think through hard problems and to continue learning from some of the best practitioners in the world."
"The iRODS Consortium hosts regular meetings with its members, which is a really beneficial opportunity for our team," says JC Ducom, the HPC manager at Scripps Research. "These meetings allow us to ask questions, solve problems, share knowledge and ultimately implement best practices with the help of the consortium’s expertise."
About the iRODS Consortium
The iRODS Consortium is a membership organization that supports the development of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS), free open source software for data virtualization, data discovery, workflow automation, and secure collaboration. The iRODS Consortium provides a production-ready iRODS distribution and iRODS training, professional integration services, and support. The world’s top researchers in life sciences, geosciences, and information management use iRODS to control their data.
The development team of the iRODS Consortium is based at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), which is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. To learn more about iRODS and the iRODS Consortium, please visit irods.org.
About Scripps Research
Scripps Research is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institute ranked one of the most influential in the world for its impact on innovation by Nature Index. We are advancing human health through profound discoveries that address pressing medical concerns around the globe. Our drug discovery and development division, Calibr-Skaggs, works hand-in-hand with scientists across disciplines to bring new medicines to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible, while teams at Scripps Research Translational Institute harness genomics, digital medicine and cutting-edge informatics to understand individual health and render more effective healthcare. Scripps Research also trains the next generation of leading scientists at our Skaggs Graduate School, consistently named among the top 10 US programs for chemistry and biological sciences. Learn more at www.scripps.edu.
Jayasree Jaganatha