Case Study: Baylor College of Medicine accelerates genomics research with WEKA

Baylor College of Medicine’s Aiden Lab Chooses WEKA to Accelerate Genomics Research

Baylor College of Medicine’s Aiden Lab, part of the Center for Genome Architecture in Houston, needed a faster, more efficient storage solution to support its genomics research and GPU cluster workloads. The lab was looking for a high-performance file system that could keep up with demanding I/O requirements and work well in a cloud computing environment, so it chose Weka’s Weka File System (WekaFS).

Weka implemented WekaFS to accelerate Aiden Lab’s 3D-DNA genome assembly pipeline and improve storage efficiency. The result was a 3x performance improvement compared with alternatives, helping Baylor College of Medicine use its cloud infrastructure more effectively and enabling researchers to analyze results faster and more productively.

Baylor College of Medicine

David Weisz

Lead Scientific Programmer