WORLD-LEADING MICROBIAL BIOINFORMATICS
CYBER-INFRASTRUCTURE

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About Us

The CLIMB-BIG-DATA project (Cloud Infrastructure for Big Data Microbial Bioinformatics) is a collaboration between Warwick, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea, Bath and Leicester Universities, the MRC Unit the Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Quadram Institute Bioscience.

CLIMB-BIG-DATA is an ambitious 5-year initiative to deliver a cutting-edge scalable and dynamic bioinformatics platform to support academic research groups, government agencies and health service facing the challenges of big data in modern microbiology.  We provide cloud-based compute, storage, and analysis tools for microbiologists across the UK, accompanied by a wide range of bioinformatics training activities.

CLIMB-BIG-DATA is funded by the UK’s Medical Research Council through grant MR/T030062/1.

 

CLIMB, the CLIMB-BIG-DATA precursor, became an essential national capability for microbiologists in the UK, serving more than 900 users and over 300 research groups scattered across at least 85 research institutions—from Edinburgh to Exeter, from Belfast to Norwich—spanning universities and government agencies (e.g. PHE, PHW, APHA). CLIMB also won international recognition via 2017 HPC Wire Readers Choice Awards in Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences and Best HPC Collaboration in Academia, Government or Industry.

CLIMB was funded by the UK’s Medical Research Council through grant MR/L015080/1.

A paper describing CLIMB was published on Microbial Genomics in 2016.

To know more about CLIMB, here’s a video of Mark Pallen introducing the project during the launch event.

Learn more about...

Using Climb-big-data

How to register for an account and how to launch and access virtual machines

System Highlights

Processing power, storage and memory capacity

System Specifics

What hardware we use to power and run the system


Latest News

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Tips to deliver trainings on CLIMB-BIG-DATA Jupyter Notebooks

by Lisa Marchioretto | Friday, October 27th, 2023

Here are some key tips and useful information for trainers delivering workshops on CLIMB-BIG-DATA Jupyter Notebooks: Registration and Access Storage … Read More… Tips to deliver trainings on CLIMB-BIG-DATA Jupyter Notebooks

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What can you do with a CLIMB-BIG-DATA Notebook?

by Lisa Marchioretto | Tuesday, October 17th, 2023

What does the CLIMB-BIG-DATA free tier entail? Any team under the free tier has 1TB of shared storage, 1TB of … Read More… What can you do with a CLIMB-BIG-DATA Notebook?