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Helping clinicians unlock the power of genetic data

A full set of one person’s DNA data requires a stack of 50 DVDs while a large study with 1,000 patients can be hundreds of terabytes of data. This makes it impractical to transfer genomic data using traditional methods, challenging to store it, and virtually impossible to use it without advanced research and education networks like CANARIE, sophisticated software tools, and high performance computing facilities.

Genomics Health & Medicine
CANARIE (Canada) | North America |
MRI scanner

Freeing epilepsy patients from seizure

90% of the world’s 50 million epilepsy sufferers live in developing countries and a large minority need surgery as the only effective treatment. Thanks to the power of high-capacity R&E networks, the outlook for millions of epilepsy sufferers is being dramatically transformed and the costs of treatment substantially reduced.

Health & Medicine
Africa | Centre de Calcul El-Khawarizmi (CCK) - Tunisia | EUMEDCONNECT3 (Eastern Mediterranean) | Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | Middle East | RENATER (France) |
Helping the fight against Ebola

Joining forces with the medical community to combat tropical diseases

Collaborations for Dengue Fever and Chikungunya initiatives are excellent examples of the scalable nature of efforts to build communities. As such, the tools and capabilities are easily adaptable to the plethora of infectious diseases that pose a global challenge.

Health & Medicine
Africa | Asia Pacific | C@ribNET (Caribbean) | Caribbean | CKLN (Caribbean) | Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | IUCC (Israel) | Middle East | SingAREN (Singapore) | TEIN (Asia Pacific) | UbuntuNet (East & Southern Africa) |

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