HUAWEI CLOUD Helps Oebiotech Build an Efficient Genetic Sequencing Operation System
Mar 23, 2018
As the economy continues to grow and the sequencing market becomes standardized, the Chinese genetic sequencing market with its rapid growth, is expected to become one of the world’s top next-generation sequencing (NGS) markets. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the Chinese genetic sequencing market from 2012 to 2017 is estimated to be 20% to 25%, ranking the top in the world. According to ASKCI Consulting, the scale of the Chinese sequencing market was about 6.7 billion RMB in 2017 and is expected to exceed 15 billion RMB by 2022.
Proactively Responding to Development Opportunities, Establishing an Industrial Benchmark
Oebiotech, founded in 2009, is located in the International Science and Technology City of Lingang Pujiang within the national high-tech park. The company focuses on applying cutting-edge, state-of-the-art molecular biology technology to precision medicine, high-end technical services (globolomics services in nucleic acid/protein/metabolism), civilian detection, and molecular agricultural breeding.
"Hard data and good service" are the objectives of Oebiotech. Oebiotech is highly respected by customers for its reputation. Over the years, Oebiotech has become a leading high-tech enterprise in Shanghai. It has always been famous for high-quality data, products, and service. As the genetic sequencing service industry started to expand rapidly, Oebiotech actively embraced the changing trends and used digital technologies to improve the initial IT environment and quickly seize development opportunities, building itself into an industry benchmark for digital transformation.
Building an Efficient Underlying Infrastructure with HUAWEI CLOUD
While rapidly developing their services, Oebiotech needed to quickly build high-performance computing resources to meet the ever growing genetic sequencing requirements. If their expansion was based on their existing self-built cluster (more than 1000 CPU cores, 10T memory, and 1.2PB storage), the service development requirements of their customers could not have been promptly met, because of high short-term costs, long periods, and high management skill requirements.
To help Oebiotech meet these requirements, HUAWEI CLOUD provided professional online and offline, as well as prompt services. Using the High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution, Oebiotech can now rapidly expand its high-performance computing capabilities.
Oebiotech accelerated its service development using HUAWEI CLOUD.
HUAWEI CLOUD provides the following benefits:
l HUAWEI CLOUD commits task scripts through the Internet. All sample data and service software involved in computing are stored on the Elastic Volume Service (EVS). Analyzed results are downloaded from the EVS to the server in the customer's local equipment room, greatly facilitating O&M.
l HPC resources provided by HUAWEI CLOUD shorten the IT resource construction period from 60 days to 3 days, achieving rapid service deployment.
l HPC resources are paid for on demand, effectively reducing the operating expense (OPEX) of Oebiotech. HUAWEI CLOUD enables Oebiotech to focus on its main business priorities by eliminating infrastructure and IT expense concerns.
"By relying on HUAWEI CLOUD, Oebiotech has effectively improved its business capacity and processing capabilities. We are looking forward to more extensive cooperation in the future." said Dr. Lin Bo, the Head of Oebiotech Bioinformatics.