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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.

Cloud computing

August 2, 2018

Bioinformaticians: Hidden Superheroes are key to fighting cancer

Although the issues associated with sequencing have mostly been resolved, the raw data generated from the sequencing process is useless unless you can give it meaning. That’s where the unsung superheroes come in: bioinformaticians.

Bioinformatics Frontiers

July 5, 2018

Bringing together high-quality open-source community resources with CloudOS

Over the last few years open-source has been increasingly becoming the norm, even in Bioinformatics. The number of high-quality applications which are freely available on GitHub and other Git providers is increasing, such as the pipelines that the Broad institute uses for production.

Bioinformatics/Open Source/Product

June 19, 2018

DeepVariant as a Nextflow Pipeline on CloudOS

In December 2017, the team at Google Brain joined the effort by releasing an open source, deep learning based variant caller: DeepVariant. DeepVariant outperforms its competitors by accuracy – it even won the accuracy award at the precision FDA Truth Challenge.

Bioinformatics/Open Source/Product

June 14, 2018

Improving genomic analyses over cloud using Grakn

Let’s focus on where Grakn makes a difference for us: what is the best resource to run specific analyses over cloud? We needed a technology that would allow us to both efficiently store our data and easily use it to train an ML model.

Bioinformatics/Cloud computing