Lifebit Blog

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

November 28, 2018

On the frontlines of rare disease diagnosis: Dr. Dimitris Polychronopoulos and Dr. Kristina Ibáñez Garikano – Genomics England

Dimitris and Kristina are an incredible duo set to find ways of teasing out critical information from enormous data sets in order to deliver actionable insights to UK rare disease patients.

Categories Bioinformatics Frontiers

November 20, 2018

Developing nf-core DeepVariant, a Google variant caller: A tutorial for noobs using Nextflow

This blog post is essentially a list of things I wish I knew before I started making an nf-core pipeline, which would have made things easier.

Categories Bioinformatics/Open Source

November 5, 2018

The next healthcare frontier: Scaling reproducible genomics and multiomics analysis for the clinical environment

Much of the work in genomics over the last two decades has been focused on the research environment, whether it be sequencing genomes of different species, or identifying changes in the sequence, structure or expression of genomes.

Categories Clinical

November 1, 2018

Dr. Martin Steinegger: Metagenomic data analysis on steroids.

Dr. Martin Steinegge has always been obsessed with: how can we get insights from analysing massive amounts of metagenomics data in only minutes, instead of the days and weeks that the process currently takes.

Categories Bioinformatics Frontiers

October 22, 2018

nf-core: a community-driven initiative to standardise Nextflow-based pipelines

The main goal of nf-core is to establish best practices concerning pipelines that are built with Nextflow.

Categories Bioinformatics/Open Source

October 5, 2018

Get your genomics & big data analysis 90% cheaper over AWS through spot instances

On paper, cloud computing is a relatively straightforward model which allows access to compute and storage resources. However, the reality of cloud pricing can be quite complex.

Categories Cloud computing