Lifebit Blog

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!

Categories 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)

Categories 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.

Categories 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.

Categories 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.

Categories 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.

Categories 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.

Categories 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

December 5, 2018

Top 4 Highlights from Biodata World Congress 2018

This year the BioData World Congress held in Basel, Switzerland was the largest meeting to date, with a wide range of attendees and speakers from pharma, biotech, government and vendors from the computing world.

Categories Events

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