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Category: Life Sciences

How Caris Life Sciences processed 400,000 RNAseq samples in 2.5 days with AWS Batch

How Caris Life Sciences processed 400,000 RNAseq samples in 2.5 days with AWS Batch

In the race to deliver precision medicine, time is of the essence. Caris Life Sciences, a pioneer in this field, leveraged AWS Batch to build a highly scalable solution that processed hundreds of thousands of genomic samples in record time. Discover how they achieved this remarkable feat and the key services that powered their breakthrough.

Scalable Cryo-EM on AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS)

Scalable Cryo-EM on AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS)

Cryo-EM data processing just got a major boost! Learn how AWS Parallel Computing Service can help structural biology teams scale their HPC infrastructure and streamline Cryo-EM research. Discover a recommended reference architecture that leverages the power of the cloud.

Benchmarking the Oxford Nanopore Technologies basecallers on AWS

Oxford Nanopore sequencers enables direct, real-time analysis of long DNA or RNA fragments. They work by monitoring changes to an electrical current as nucleic acids are passed through a protein nanopore. The resulting signal is decoded to provide the specific DNA or RNA sequence by virtue of  compute-intensive algorithms called basecallers. This blog post presents the benchmarking results for two of those Oxford Nanopore basecallers — Guppy and Dorado — on AWS. This benchmarking project was conducted in collaboration between G42 Healthcare, Oxford Nanopore Technologies and AWS.

BioContainers are now available in Amazon ECR Public Gallery

Today we are excited to announce that all 9000+ applications provided by the BioContainers community are available within ECR Public Gallery! You don’t need an AWS account to access these images, but having one allows many more pulls to the internet, and unmetered usage within AWS. If you perform any sort of bioinformatics analysis on AWS, you should check it out!