About Nephele
Development
Nephele aims to develop a better understanding of how the cloud can be utilized for the storage, management, and analysis of biomedical data, and to investigate the possibility of the cloud as a long-term computing solution for other research domains as well.
To achieve this goal, Nephele is built and managed by an interdisciplinary group of software developers, bioinformatics specialists, analysts, and project managers from the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch of the NIAID Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
For questions, comments, or assistance, please email the Nephele Project Team

Jennifer Dommer
Software Developer

Lewis Kim
Public Health Informatics Specialist

Philip MacMenamin
Technical Lead

Mariam Quiñones
Computational Molecular Biology Specialist

Conrad Shyu
Computational Genomics Specialist

Karlynn Noble
Scientific Resource Outreach Strategist

Samuel Ezeji
UX Designer

Poorani Subramanian
Computational Biology Specialist
Oversight
The Nephele project has been supported a governing body from NIAID and NHGRI who have brought leadership and guidance to the project since its inception.

Vivien Bonazzi
Program Director, Genome Informatics and Computational Biology, NHGRI

Maria Giovanni
Director, Office of Genomics and Advanced Technologies, NIAID

Darrell Hurt
Branch Chief, Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, NIAID

Chris Wellington
Program Director, Genome Informatics and Computational Biology, NHGRI

Alison Yao
Program Officer, NIAID

Andy Baxevanis
Director, Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core, NHGRI

Eric Green
Director, NHGRI

Kim Kassing
Branch Chief, Operations and Engineering Branch, NIAID

John J. McGowan
Deputy Director for Science Management, NIAID

Mike Tartakovsky
Chief Information Officer, NIAID

Diane Wax
Consultant, NIAID

Ed Whitley
Chief Information Officer, NHGRI

Michael Dolan
Section Head, Bioinformatics Software, Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, NIAID
Alumni
Past Nephele team members also significantly contributed to the project.

Yentram Huyen
Former Branch Chief

Jianchang(Jeff) Ning
Former Bioinformatics Software Developer Team Lead

Meghan Coakley
Scientific Program Analyst

Andrei Gabrielian
Program Officer

Ramendeep Kaur
Software Developer

R. Burke Squires
Computational Genomics Specialist

Alex Levitsky
Scientific Infrastructure Lead

Andrew Oler
High-Throughput Sequencing Bioinformatics Specialist

Ian Misner
Computational Biology Subject Matter Expert

David Liou
Software Developer

Nick Weber
Project Manager, Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, NIAID
Partnership
Nephele is an example of NIH's commitment to address the challenges of big data analysis and capitalizes on the significant computing infrastructure of Amazon Web Services to create new opportunities in biomedical research.
Acknowledgements
A multidisciplinary group of microbiome researchers and genomics data analysis developers from around the country have provided essential feedback throughout the planning and testing stages of the Nephele project.