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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 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

February 26, 2019

GSK #HackDays 2019

Last week, three Lifebit team members crossed the English Channel, and arrived in Brussels, Belgium to partake in the 2019 GSK #HackDays competition!

Artificial Intelligence/Events/Industry/Machine Learning

February 15, 2019

fastQsee: A tutorial on how to use Docker containers on the CloudOS 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 28, 2019

Festival of Genomics 2019

The Festival of Genomics has moved from the cavernous Excel stadium to the more intimate environment of the Business Development Centre in Islington this year, with a wide range of speakers from research, healthcare and industry.

Events

January 22, 2019

Continuous Delivery lessons for Machine Learning projects

Continuous Delivery (CD) is the practice of getting changes in a codebase into the hands of our users in a frequent and predictable way. Where CD is implemented, developers push their code as frequently as possible and software is built, tested, and released with great speed and frequency.

Engineering/Machine Learning

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.

Bioinformatics/Product/Tutorial/Webinar

December 20, 2018

Do you feel the information from 23andMe, Ancestry & other direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies is limited in scope?

We had the pleasure to catch-up with Dr. Lasse Folkersen, our latest superhero, who is on a mission to democratise genetic information for general public.

Bioinformatics Frontiers

December 18, 2018

Webinar: How to implement and run Google DeepVariant

In this webinar Dr. Pablo Prieto and Phil Palmer explore Google’s DeepVariant and show how this variant calling pipeline can be optimised for cost and speed, and
be easily integrated into your genomics analyses.

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.

Artificial Intelligence/Bioinformatics/Cloud computing/Machine Learning