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and chances are most folks would love to

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have an all-access pass to a concert or

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some other event that you're excited

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about

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well scientists who are looking for data

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from experiments that happen in space

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are no different and nasa has just a

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gene lab is giving scientists that kind

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of access and the ability to share data

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on molecular biology experiments

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my colleague lori meggs at the marshall

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space flight center recently got an

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all-access pass to a nasa supercomputer

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at the ames research center in

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california where this important research

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information is stored

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what is gene lab what is gene lab

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gene lab is a platform for nasa to

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collect and distribute the valuable

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space station research data to the

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broader public

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why do we need something like that i

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information that the scientists have

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garnered in space other people want to

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use it too right oh they do of course

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they do and they want to understand it

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beyond just the complicated uh

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ways that the data is described for the

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international space station science

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community so there's a broader community

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a community of biomedical researchers

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that really don't understand space

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station and the space station related

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experimental data we would like to

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format that data and make it available

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to the broader public in a way that they

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would understand it and also define what

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the unique space

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conditions are so that data can be made

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useful

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we're standing inside the 11th fastest

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computer in the world it's a

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supercomputer what happens here well

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this is nasa's supercomputer so we do

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nasa work here we do aerospace earth

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science space science and life science

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research on these computers around us

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that's a lot of data a lot of super

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computing that's right you can hear and

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feel it with the air blowing around all

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the data on the systems so what do we

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use this for well we use it for our

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science scientists log in from all over

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the united states accessing these

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systems to do their science that

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requires large-scale computing resources

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so here's where the data is stored in

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the supercomputer but how does that fit

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into genelab i'm glad you asked that

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lori

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one of our i.t folks in genelab

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takes the proteomic and the

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genomic data

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they process it and the processing takes

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um this processing gets completed and

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then it it will be available for a

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genelab portal so researcher

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has their data and it goes into these

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tapes right correct um researchers

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as well as samples that are obtained

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from space flight missions as well as

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ground samples are

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processed in gene lab in this place and

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then they're moved to a portal so that

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researchers in the scientific community

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will have access to it and that's the

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point so everyone has access to this