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Michael Mueller

Author: Michael Mueller

Michael Mueller is a Senior Genomics Solutions Architect at AWS. He is passionate about helping customers to combine the power of genomics and cloud computing to improve healthcare. He likes exploring the big city jungle of London as much as the outdoors of the UK and Europe.

Cost-effective and scalable Oxford Nanopore Technologies primary analysis with Nextflow and Amazon EC2 G Instances

This post was contributed by Stefan Dittforth and Michael Mueller Introduction Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing enhances genome analysis in research and healthcare with its ability to produce long-read sequencing data in real-time. Long reads improve our ability to detect structural variation, resolve repetitive regions, perform haplotype phasing and analyze full-length transcripts, providing a more […]

Optimize Nextflow Workflows on AWS Batch with Mountpoint for Amazon S3

Are you running genomic workflows with Nextflow on AWS Batch and experiencing bottlenecks when staging large reference files? In this post, we will show you how to optimize your workflow performance by leveraging Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to stream reference data directly into your Nextflow processes, eliminating the need to stage large static files repeatedly.