Amazon Web Services joins 51视频鈥檚 STRIDES Initiative to harness latest cloud technologies for biomedical researchers
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Amazon Web Services joins 51视频鈥檚 STRIDES Initiative to harness latest cloud technologies for biomedical researchers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined . Launched in July 2018, the STRIDES Initiative aims to harness the power of commercial cloud computing for 51视频 biomedical researchers. Initially, 51视频鈥檚 efforts will focus on making high-value data sets more accessible to researchers and experimenting with new ways to optimize technology-intensive research.
The agreement with AWS will help 51视频 researchers, as well as researchers at more than 2,500 academic institutions across the nation receiving 51视频 support, make use of AWS鈥檚 wide range of technologies.
鈥淭eaming with Amazon Web Services will give 51视频 researchers powerful cloud-based resources to more efficiently collaborate and analyze data,鈥 said Andrea T. Norris, Director of 51视频鈥檚 Center for Information Technology and 51视频 Chief Information Officer. 鈥淓xpanding our cloud service provider network will allow us to provide the research community access to the tools they need to advance science. AWS鈥檚 longstanding leadership in the cloud space will help bolster the innovative research being conducted through 51视频 support.鈥
We are thrilled to collaborate with the 51视频, and to support the important work these investigators are doing to accelerate discoveries in biomedical research,鈥 said Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS. 鈥淲e鈥檙e committed to providing those researchers participating in the STRIDES Initiative with access to high-value 51视频 datasets, enabling them to further their research to study, treat, and prevent the most devastating diseases.鈥
The STRIDES Initiative is part of the 51视频 Common Fund鈥檚 (NMDS), designed to enhance biomedical discovery and improve efficiency through new digital data management strategies-strategies that contribute to 51视频 efforts to develop and sustain a modern biomedical data ecosystem. The program also aims to make data for research findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable in the cloud. The two NMDS program components, the STRIDES Initiative and the , are testing ways to bring high-value biomedical data sets into the cloud and to establish and evaluate best practices for using the data. AWS is the second cloud service provider to join the STRIDES Initiative following Google Cloud.
The STRIDES Initiative and related efforts support 51视频鈥檚 , which articulates specific priorities that address developing reliable, accessible, and appropriately secured modes of data storage and use, transforming a fragmented set of individual components into a coordinated, efficient, and optimally useful ecosystem.
About the 51视频 Common Fund: The 51视频 Common Fund encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high-impact, trans-51视频 programs. Common Fund programs are managed by the Office of Strategic Coordination in the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives in the 51视频 Office of the Director in partnership with the 51视频 Institutes, Centers, and Offices. More information is available at the Common Fund website: .
About the National Institutes of Health (51视频): 51视频, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 51视频 is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about 51视频 and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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