Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

Bioinformatics Improvements/Bluearc Storage

In the beginning…

Early steps to save the data

Archived years of data off instrument workstations

Received permission to “cyber-squat” on Crowe’s personal lab server for a few years

Daily to weekly archiving procedure to store condensed, archive formatted data

More of an emergency measure, not meant to be a real solution

Poor model for customer satisfaction, lab workflow

May 2009 VICC Review

Bioinformatics identified as a weakness

Instructed to work with the VICC Bioinformatics Core (Masys)

No financial support = no progressWe did not have the money to do this ourselves at the time

March 2011 Crowe server ending it’s usable life span

Bluearc space became available

Data transferred to Bluearc, external drives

Still no automation, no easy user access

August 2011Office of Research internal funding opportunity

We proposed to develop a better bioinformatics program for our Core-accepted!

Scott Sobecki, Bioinformatics CoreDeveloped software to “sniff out” new data, upload to server

Developed Web Portal for user access to data

Programmers kept getting recruited away from the project

Current Bioinformatics

Model

Web Portal

Web Portal

Web Portal

Entering a PI

Entering a User to a PI

Access ControlPI’s can see the data from anyone “under” them

Users can only see their own data

Future ChallengesHow well is it really working?

Only works with some internet browsers currently

The good old Mac vs. PC issue is alive and well(even on intel macs)

How long do we keep the data?

Thanks To the Office of Research for their support

The Bioinformatics Core (Scott and Programmers)

Matt Cox for implementation as well

Our users for their patience

My staff for all the hard work