# Data Management and Storage System for Shared Resource Facilities

> **NIH NIH S10** · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · 2021 · $599,621

## Abstract

Data Management and Storage System for Shared Resource Facilities
Project Summary
Past investments from the NIH, including the Delaware INBRE and several COBRE center
grants, have helped to catalyze biomedical and other life science research in Delaware through
establishment of a network of Shared Resource Facilities (SRFs). Several of these SRFs
centrally housed at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), provide services in Bio-imaging,
Genomics, Bioinformatics, and High Performance Computing. These facilities have collectively
supported over 1000 researchers across UD and our network of six academic and biomedical
research partners in Delaware over the past three years, having a significant impact on
biomedical research statewide.
With significant advances in instrumentation, including high-resolution, multi-dimensional
bioimaging approaches and high-throughput massively parallel DNA sequencing platforms, raw
data production from our SRFs has increased significantly in recent years. Processing and
analysis further compound the size of these data and require access to significant
high-performance computational infrastructure. An advanced and scalable data management
solution is crucial to allow our SRFs to meet the data demands of the instrumentation and
provide the services that our user-base needs to accomplish their research goals, while
maintaining compliance with applicable data integrity, security, and archiving requirements.
This proposal would build a centralized data management and processing infrastructure to meet
the needs of our SRFs. We request a Dell EMC Isilon storage cluster with integrated data
management solution, providing 2 petabytes of raw capacity configured to provide 357TB of fast
storage for live data analysis and 832TB of dual redundancy storage for intermediate term data
archiving. This solution would meet our projected needs, but is also easily scalable providing
the ability to meet other needs that may arise. The platform allows for flexible data access
protocols that can be adapted to the varied use-cases our SRFs each represent. The proposed
system would allow for a higher level of automation, streamlining and simplifying data
management, increasing the efficiency of our operations, while providing new capabilities for
provenance tracking and data security. By supporting the data management, storage, and
primary data analysis needs of our SRFs, this investment will enable the advancement of
research for hundreds of biomedical and life scientists in Delaware.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10177533
- **Project number:** 1S10OD028725-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
- **Principal Investigator:** Shawn W Polson
- **Activity code:** S10 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $599,621
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-08-15 → 2022-08-14

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10177533

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10177533, Data Management and Storage System for Shared Resource Facilities (1S10OD028725-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10177533. Licensed CC0.

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