Biomedical research gets its head into cloud computing

Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 03:31 in Mathematics & Economics

As cloud computing becomes the next big consumer techo –trend, allowing people to access – but not have to physically store – everything from playlists to photos, it's also on the verge of revolutionizing the way research is done. Using the cloud model as inspiration, biomedical informatics scientists at The Ohio State University have created the Translational Research Informatics and Data management grid (TRIAD), a system which is helping researchers around the world access and analyze biomedical data at an unprecedented pace.

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