Jan Bot wins light path for Next Generation Sequencing

12 Dec 2011

Jan Bot (second from the left) wins EYR.

Jan Bot, e-BioGrid e-core member, wins the Enlighten Your Research (EYR) contest with the proposal 'Next generation networking for next generation sequencing'.

The proposal aims to connect the institutes involved in next-generation sequence data analysis by developing five national and two international dynamic light paths including to Hong Kong where sequencing data are produced. Also extra storage is required to enable the transport of big datasets. The jury report says: 'Sound approach; impressive network both nationally and internationally' and 'genuinely next generation, with a major impact on both science and industry'.

The Enlighten Your Research contest is organised by SURFnet, SARA, BiG Grid and NWO to 'Take your e-Infrastructure to the next level'. E-Infrastructure refers to the combined use of central storage and computing capacity, grid-infrastructure and high level connectivity via light paths.

More information (in Dutch) can be found on the SURFnet website.

In 2009, another Enlighten Your Research competition was organised. One of the winners then was Péter Horvatovich, University Groningen: a high speed lightpath network for the "Bioinformatics for Proteomics" Platform.
At our Vimeo-channel you can watch a video about the project.