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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 CloudOS

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.

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July 24, 2019

How to use Illumina’s DRAGEN in CloudOS: ultra-rapid & highly accurate secondary NGS analysis at your fingertips

Learn how to run DRAGEN for ultra-rapid secondary analysis through Deploit over your genomics data, in your own AWS cloud.

Bioinformatics/Cloud computing/Tutorial

May 30, 2019

What is the best imputation pipeline?

Here, we compared three different imputation pipelines in terms of quality of the imputation (as measured by R2), runtime and cost. The pipelines we compared were Beagle5, The Michigan Imputation Server and Impute2.

Bioinformatics/Cloud computing/Engineering/Open Source Comments: 0

May 23, 2019

The Art of Collaboration: transparency & data sharing in research

Just a quick glance at Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains’ Google Scholar profile can be mind-boggling: the sheer quantity of publications and the variety of different international collaborators is really impressive for researcher this early in the game. Let’s delve into his secrets for establishing multidisciplinary collaborations while at the same time understanding how he assures reproducibility of his work.

Bioinformatics Frontiers

May 16, 2019

The London Bioinformatics Frontiers Conference is coming!

The Francis Crick Institute & Lifebit are co-hosting the London Bioinformatics Frontiers Conference on June 17th & 18th. We’re excited to round up the best of the best in terms of speakers covering a variety of topics, including how to standardise and scale analysis using Nextflow, Containers & Cloud.

Bioinformatics/Events

May 7, 2019

Lifebit Bioinformatics Travel Grant

Want to present your awesome bioinformatics research at a conference, but don’t have the travel funds available to get there? Apply for the Lifebit Bioinformatics Travel Grant and let us pay for your journey!

Events

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 28, 2019

Findacure Annual Conference: Repurposing Drugs for Rare Diseases

Around 80 delegates joined Findacure for their Annual Conference at the Royal College of Nursing in London. These are always fascinating meetings, made so by the combination of backgrounds of the delegates, patients, family members patient advocacy groups, CROs, and tech and pharmaceutical companies

Clinical/Events/Industry/Rare diseases