IBM yesterday announced the deployment of its IBM solutions as the compute and storage infrastructure for Sidra Medical and Research Center (Sidra).
Sidra, a groundbreaking hospital, biomedical research and educational institution, chose IBM solutions to manage and store clinical genome sequencing data as well as to provide the organisation’s biomedical informatics technology infrastructure capabilities that will serve as a national resource. The IBM platform is used for data management and storage, bioinformatics and High Performance Computing (HPC).
One of the first programmes Sidra used the IBM technology platform was for the Qatar Genome Programme (QGP) 1. The QGP is a large national genome medical research project, which aims to develop personalised healthcare therapies for the Qatari population.
“Sidra has undertaken to implement personalised medicine to better meet the unmet needs of the women and children in Qatar and beyond. Biomedical informatics plays a central role in bringing this concept to life,” said Dr Rashid Al Ali, Division Chief of the Biomedical Informatics Division at Sidra.
“This is why we hired a multidisciplinary team of experts from all over the world, invested in leading technologies and chosen vendors like IBM to help enhance our approach to offering personalised care to the women and children of Qatar. Our implementation of technologies goes beyond meeting Sidra’s needs –as we have the basic building blocks in place to be considered a national resource in the county and build local capacity.”
