Data is the foundation for transformative discoveries in life science. Each generation of life sciences technology creates more data than the previous: Genome sequencing requires 30 times more data than exome sequencing and cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) will replace cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) with 10 times larger data payloads. When these data sets can be made available in real-time for machine learning and shared for open science collaboration, innovation is accelerated. However, the storage systems that many institutions relied on can no longer provide the performance at the scale needed for efficient bioinformatic pipelines and the lack of cloud integration impedes collaboration.

The VAST Data Platform is the foundation for accelerating new discoveries. VAST delivers the performance to excel at workloads such as AlphaFold and provides the scale for the largest biobanks. Effective data management requires a new approach that fuses unstructured and structured data. To this end, VAST created the VAST Catalog, a built-in, fully automated metadata index that makes it easy to find and curate precise datasets. As a platform that can be deployed across edge, core and cloud, VAST creates a global namespace that simplifies cloud-based life science pipelines, including cloud bursting and collaboration.