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 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