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February 6, 2020

Accelerating Growth Through 2020 and Beyond: Spotlight On Thorben Seeger, Vice President, Commercial

Kicking off 2020, we are very pleased to spotlight Thorben Seeger, VP Commercial. Since joining Lifebit in Q2 2019, Thorben has expertly spearheaded, scaled and optimised our international commercial operations.

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January 9, 2020

Sano Genetics Deploys Lifebit CloudOS, Delivers Free Genotype Imputation for Direct to Consumer (DTC) Genetics Customers

By democratizing access to data securely, Lifebit and Sano empower data-driven insights for DTC customers and life sciences researchers

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December 19, 2019

How to enable a genomic revolution without risking a data privacy catastrophe

Data security and compliance are recurring themes in the many conversations I have with researchers and organisations in life sciences.

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November 26, 2019

The Promise Of Big Data Is Now Impeding Genomics Progress (And Here’s How We Can Fix It)

I have had the opportunity to get to know a great many people in life sciences. Whether pharma, drug discovery, biotech, academia, or DTC companies, they all share the common goal of advancing medicine and improving life.

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November 20, 2019

Fixing the reproducibility crisis in science: Lifebit CloudOS meets Jupyter

Anyone working in a data-driven industry will undoubtedly recognise the name Jupyter, a clever acronym for Julia, Python and R (although dozens of other programming languages are now supported).

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November 14, 2019

Lifebit and Medley Genomics Partner to Deliver Streamlined Solution Supporting New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Discoveries

Researchers can now tap new disease discoveries using Medley Genomics HotNet2 at enterprise scale, over any system, across distributed data with Lifebit CloudOS

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November 7, 2019

Lifebit Announces General Release of its Federated Genomics Cloud Operating System

Lifebit CloudOS operates as a managed informatics platform that removes the industry barrier of vast amounts of inaccessible distributed omics data, enables federated bioinformatics analysis and machine learning

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November 4, 2019

How to best detect disease and cancer driver-genes using the novel HotNet2 algorithm

1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, regardless of gender. Take a moment to process that.

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October 16, 2019

Finding the needle in the haystack: determining genetic variations associated with complex diseases

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have gained traction since the mid 2000s, with over 7,800 GWAS studies performed which have facilitated the detection of over 159,200 unique ‘needles’ – SNP-trait associations, all archived in EMBL-EBI’s GWAS Catalogue.

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September 20, 2019

How to achieve standardised secondary genomics analysis with Illumina’s DRAGEN

DRAGEN is now available on Deploit enabling bioinformaticians to perform federated, standardised and cloud-native secondary genomics analysis.

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