1. Business challenge
Complex diseases like cancer require highly targeted treatments. How could ProteomicsDB help researchers better understand biochemical processes and gain new therapeutic insights?
“For us, SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems delivers more control and achieves greater than 99.9 percent system availability.”
—Dr. Harald Kienegger, Co-Executive Manager of the SAP University Competence Center, Technical University of Munich
Transformation
To deliver faster access to more-detailed data, the team migrated ProteomicsDB, which is based on SAP HANA®, to an IBM® Power Systems™ server, hosted at the SAP® University Competence Center at TUM.
Business benefits:
>1,000
published academic research papers reference ProteomicsDB
243 cancer drugs analyzed to enable personalized treatment in the future
15,721 proteins and 80% of the human proteome quantified and made accessible online
ProteomicsDB
Technical University of Munich generates new protein insights to help fight disease
Solution components:
SAP HANA®
IBM® Power Systems™ E870C
IBM PowerVM®
IBM Services
IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
IBM Storwize® V5020
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
The ProteomicsDB is the flagship bioinformatics project of the Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics at the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan. The leading interdisciplinary research group at Technical University of Munich (TUM) is made up of around 30 people with backgrounds in cell biology, chemistry, biochemistry, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics. The TUM has 14 departments, more than 40,000 students, and is one of Europe’s top universities as well as one of the first universities in Germany to be named a University of Excellence.
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Client Name
ProteomicsDB at the Technical University of Munich
Company Background
The ProteomicsDB is the flagship bioinformatics project of the Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics at the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan. The leading interdisciplinary research group at Technical University of Munich (TUM) is made up of around 30 people with backgrounds in cell biology, chemistry, biochemistry, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics. The TUM has 14 departments, more than 40,000 students, and is one of Europe’s top universities as well as one of the first universities in Germany to be named a University of Excellence.
Business challenge
Complex diseases like cancer require highly targeted treatments. How could ProteomicsDB help researchers better understand biochemical processes and gain new therapeutic insights?
The benefit
More than 1,000 research papers have cited ProteomicsDB, including one analyzing 243 cancer drugs to understand their effectiveness. To-date, 15,721 proteins have been quantified.
Pull Quote
“For us, SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems delivers more control and achieves greater than 99.9 percent system availability.”
—Dr. Harald Kienegger, Co-Executive Manager of the SAP University Competence Center, Technical University of Munich
Solution components
SAP HANA®
IBM® Power Systems™ E870C
IBM PowerVM®
IBM Services
IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
IBM Storwize® V5020
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications on IBM Power Systems
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