Overall, Young believes, purchasing everything from a single supplier should solve a lot of their problems.
One of Neurome's biggest hurdles is storing and accessing the vast amounts of data it is gathering from 3D models of mouse brain structures. The amount of data is large because of the precision of the images, which go down to the sub-cellular level. "The finest resolution would expand the size of the mouse brain to five football fields," Young notes.
A single mouse brain apparently requires 10 Gbytes to 1 terabyte of storage -- which is a lot of storage for one mouse. Essentially what Neurome is doing is making models of mice brains that mimic human conditions, in order for drug companies to do tests on them. Neurome received its first multimillion-dollar research contract from Elan Pharmaceuticals.
The company has been in business for about a year and half and currently has over 8 terabytes of data. It expects this to increase by about 4 terabytes a year.
This growth bodes well for IBM, which is making a concerted effort to tap into the biotech market with packaged storage offerings designed to combat the exponential growth of data in this sector (see IBM Targets Drug Makers).
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