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Author: Prof. Denis Bauer
Prof. Denis Bauer is a government research scientist, adjunct professor at Sydney and Macquarie University, and an AWS Hero. She focuses on scalable and cloud-based bioinformatics, supporting population precision medicine and personalised treatment applications. With degrees from the Australian Institute of Company Directors and University of New South Wales Business School, she also contributes to strategic roadmaps for the adoption of genomics.
How CSIRO built scalable, cost-optimized genomic variant querying on AWS
Learn how researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, built Serverless Beacon (sBeacon), a scalable serverless solution for securely querying genomic variant data on AWS. sBeacon implements the GA4GH Beacon standard using Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Athena to support production-scale clinical and research applications.