Hortonworks has partnered with Arizona State University (ASU) to design and develop a platform to discover genomic links to cancer. Cancer is bot ha complicated and complex disease. It is complicated because it is not actually a single disease, but rather the result of the dynamic interplay between many moving biological and environmental components. Cancer is complex because it is a living system that behaves in a systematic way beyond the sum of its component parts. Arizona State University (ASU) sought out Hadoop and Big Data approaches to see through cancer’s complexity.
The ASU team can both store more “dots” and also process the combination of dots in different ways to understand the relationships that form the complete picture. Before HDP the team was simply unable to either store sufficient data or analyze the complex relationships between the parts.
For more information on genomic cancer research and precision medicine with ASU and Hortonworks, join their webinar on Wednesday June 1 at 1:00 PM Eastern, 12:00PM Central, and 10:00 AM Pacific. Hortonworks will host this webinar detailing ASU’s Big Data journey with genomics, focussing on cancer research and precision medicine. Speakers include:
Jay Etchings
Etchings is Director of Operations for Research Computing at ASU. His team built the genomics data lake and integrated it within a high-performance compute environment that uses Apache Spark for genomic queries and data workloads.
Dr. Kenneth Buetow
Dr. Buetow is the Director of the Computational Sciences and Informatics Program at ASU. Before joining ASU in 2012, Dr. Buetow was director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at theNational Cancer Institute, within the US National Institutes of Health. Now his team uses HDP to analyze genomic data to discover insights that may shed light on innovative approaches to understanding and treating cancer.
Join the webinar to hear from the architect who built the genomics data lake and the researcher who uses it to discover insights that may shed light on innovative approaches to understanding and treating cancer.
Register today here: http://hortonworks.com/webinar/genomics-cancer-research-precision-medicine-asu-hortonworks/.
Read the full Arizona State case study here.
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