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July 22, 2019

Achieve Federated, Standardised & Cloud-native Secondary Genomics Analysis in a heartbeat with DRAGEN & Deploit

DRAGEN is now available on Deploit enabling bioinformaticians to perform federated, standardised and cloud-native secondary genomics analysis.

Bioinformatics/Cloud computing/Product

April 23, 2019

UX/UI designer insights for creating a user-friendly AI-based gut microbiome analysis platform

Over the past few months, Lifebit has had an unparalleled opportunity to experiment and validate our ideas over one of the most innovative projects. In Summer 2018 Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, announced the Design Foundation funding competition, investing up to £1 million to fund early-stage, human-centred research and design projects. The aim of this competition was...

Product/Product Design Comments: 0

February 15, 2019

fastQsee: A tutorial on how to use Docker containers on the Deploit platform to quickly generate a plot-ful FastQC report for NGS quality control

Generate a plot-ful FastQC report to inspect the quality of your sequencing reads (and learn how to use Docker containers, without having to install Docker, for assembling reproducible bioinformatics workflows on the Deploit platform)

Product/Tutorial

January 8, 2019

How to run your first pipeline on the Deploit platform: 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.

Bioinformatics/Product/Tutorial/Webinar

July 5, 2018

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

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.

Bioinformatics/Open Source/Product

June 19, 2018

DeepVariant as a Nextflow Pipeline on Deploit

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.