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		jerven on Dec 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big Data Coming in Faster Than Biomedical Research... Aspera, is the current winner in Bioinformatics. The European Bioinformatics Institute and US NCBI are both big users of it. Mainly for INSDC (Genbank/ENA/DDBJ) and SRA (Short Read Achive) uploads. For UniProt a smaller dataset we just use it to clone servers and data from Switzerland to the UK and US at 1GB/s over wide area internet. Very fast, and quite affordable.

dekhn on Dec 1, 2016 [–]

I used aspera for a while, but plain old HTTP over commodity networks works fine if you balance your transfers over many TCP connections.

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