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Three founder partners of the Decrypthon program

The Decrypthon program is the result of an original partnership between a patients association, the AFM, and two major role-players from the research and technology fields, IBM and the CNRS. French universities and professionals are also partners of the project.
AFM
IBM
CNRS

AFM: Objective is to cure

The AFM coordinates the call for proposals within the scientific community and contributes to project funding in several aspects: direct funding of research teams, potential funding of related services, communication towards general public and internet users. The Decrypthon program is part of the AFM scientific strategy, organizer of the yearly Telethon since 1987, and major research role-player. This strategy aims to cure neuromuscular and rare diseases most of which have a genetic origin.

For further information, please visit www.afm-france.org

IBM, technological expertise applied to the life sciences.

At the dawn of the third millennium, the international race towards decoding the human genome enabled the general public to discover not only the scientific issues, but also technological and societal, which in the coming years will be centred around life sciences. Besides, IBM has decided to invest massively in biotechnologies by creating, in August 2000, a Life Sciences department. To provide better services to its clients, IBM has equipped itself with multidisciplinary teams, combining a double experience and skills in computer science, but also in many related fields, such as molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry or clinical research and medicine.
Technically, the Decrypthon program uses Grid Computing .

This project illustrates IBM's will to be strongly implicated in important topics of the society, particularly in the research, education and health domains. Along with the AFM and the CNRS, IBM is committed to contribute to research development and life improvement.
To carry out this program efficiently, IBM has donated four Power 4+ and Power 5 last generation servers to the universities of Bordeaux I, Lille, Paris IV and Paris Sud Orsay. In 2006, three new machines were donated by IBM : an extra server for Paris Sud Orsay University and two servers for the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the Crihan Computing Research Center in Rouen, France. IBM also supplies the necessary skills to carry out the Grid Computing technology.

For further information, please visit www.ibm.com

The CNRS: from fundamental research to new therapies.

Deciphering the mechanisms implied in the expression of the genome and establishing the proteome map represent major issues in the understanding of Life. This search for information is not only fundamental in the domain of knowledge, but also to consider, in the long term, the development of new therapies to cure genetic diseases. This approach requires the establishment of interdisciplinary research programs, combining biology and IT skills. The CNRS possesses both of these skills.
Moreover, the complexity of life and the huge quantity of data obtained entail the implementation of powerful bioinformatic methods requiring vast computation skills. The STIC department from the CNRS offer their competences to develop intense computation methods.

For further information, please visit www.cnrs.fr

Internal organisation:

The Decrypthon project is managed by three different boards:
  • The Chief Executive Board, which directs the main orientations of the projects.
  • The Scientific Board, which organises the call for proposals, the project selection and ensures the follow-up of their progress.
  • The Resources Board, which manages the technical infrastructure operation, and the project gridification.

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