Category: Bioinformatics

January 8, 2019

How to run your first pipeline on CloudOS: A step-by-step animated guide

This tutorial is an animated, step-by-step guide on how to run your first pipeline on the Deploit platform. With Deploit, running an analysis is easy as 1-2-3.

Categories Bioinformatics/Product/Tutorial/Webinar

December 6, 2018

Lifebit made it to Forbes’ Top 15 Machine Learning Companies to Watch in Europe

It was recently announced by Forbes, that Lifebit was part of the Top 15 Machine Learning Companies to Watch in Europe! 🎉 Let’s take a look and see what this means.

Categories Artificial Intelligence/Bioinformatics/Cloud computing/Machine Learning

November 29, 2018

Webinar: Re-analyse RNA-Seq public data from SRA

Dr. Pablo Prieto explains the fundamentals of re-analysing RNA-Seq public data from Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and discusses some common questions and issues that arise from these analyses.

Categories Bioinformatics/Webinar

November 20, 2018

Developing nf-core DeepVariant, a Google variant caller: A tutorial for noobs using Nextflow

This blog post is essentially a list of things I wish I knew before I started making an nf-core pipeline, which would have made things easier.

Categories Bioinformatics/Open Source

October 22, 2018

nf-core: a community-driven initiative to standardise Nextflow-based pipelines

The main goal of nf-core is to establish best practices concerning pipelines that are built with Nextflow.

Categories Bioinformatics/Open Source

July 5, 2018

Bringing together high-quality open-source community resources with CloudOS

Over the last few years open-source has been increasingly becoming the norm, even in Bioinformatics. The number of high-quality applications which are freely available on GitHub and other Git providers is increasing, such as the pipelines that the Broad institute uses for production.

Categories Bioinformatics/Open Source/Product

June 19, 2018

DeepVariant as a Nextflow Pipeline on CloudOS

In December 2017, the team at Google Brain joined the effort by releasing an open source, deep learning based variant caller: DeepVariant. DeepVariant outperforms its competitors by accuracy – it even won the accuracy award at the precision FDA Truth Challenge.

Categories Bioinformatics/Open Source/Product

June 14, 2018

Improving genomic analyses over cloud using Grakn

Let’s focus on where Grakn makes a difference for us: what is the best resource to run specific analyses over cloud? We needed a technology that would allow us to both efficiently store our data and easily use it to train an ML model.

Categories Bioinformatics/Cloud computing