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September 13, 2019

How to analyse genomics data without bioinformatics skills using a genome browser

The advent and refinement of visualisation tools has allowed scientists of all programming levels to unearth the valuable insights that lie in these complex file types, which can consist of thousands to billions of data points. One such tool is the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV), a high-performance visualisation tool for the interactive exploration of large genomic files.

Bioinformatics/Clinical/Product Comments: 0

September 4, 2019

The ultimate guide on how to offer genetic testing services or boost your current offerings in no time

Unless you have been living under a rock, you should be well aware that consumer genetics are booming and that the number of direct-to-consumer (DTC) offering genetic testing services is exploding.

Bioinformatics/Consumer Genetics/Product Comments: 0

August 29, 2019

Filling in the blanks for direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies: delivering industry’s fastest & most scalable imputation method

The commoditised genotyping array market has generated increased interest with various large direct-to-consumer (DTC) genotyping companies in the market, including 23andme, AncestryDNA, DNAFit and MyHeritage. Contrary to whole genome sequencing, genotyping arrays are cheaper and provide the economy of scale for mass adoption at a consumer level.

Bioinformatics/Industry/Product Comments: 0

August 9, 2019

How to run any nf-core analysis over the Cloud: an example using the nf-core/rnaseq pipeline

In this blog post, we will show you how it is possible to run any of the stable release nf-core pipelines with ease over the Cloud by using the Deploit platform. We have used the RNA-seq pipeline as an example because it is the most popular of all the nf-core pipelines. The following can also be done for any of the nf-core pipelines.

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August 7, 2019

Standardising cloud-native bioinformatics pipelines: nf-core meets Deploit

The democratisation of Next Generation Sequencing technologies has made omics data more available than ever before. Bioinformaticians are now confronted with tackling the NGS data deluge in order to deliver actionable insights. Transforming raw data into impactful insights requires bioinformaticians to process omics data with bioinformatics pipelines. To date, however, no validated standards have been widely established by the bioinformatics community.

Bioinformatics/Open Source/Product Comments: 0

July 22, 2019

Accelerate your standardised & federated secondary analysis by >30x with DRAGEN on 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...

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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 Deploit: 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

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