Lifebit Blog

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

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