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Amazon Omics launches with broad support from ISV and Consulting Partners

Amazon Omics is a new fully managed service which helps AWS customers store, query, analyze, and generate insights from genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data to improve health and accelerate scientific discoveries.

Many AWS customers want to go faster in their migration to the cloud, and the good news is that Amazon Omics has broad support from AWS Partners. There are ISV Partners who offer complete software applications on AWS that use Amazon Omics, as well as Consulting Partners who can help customers utilize the power of Amazon Omics to migrate custom omics applications to the cloud.

Below is a list of Amazon Omics Partners that can help you build scalable, multi-modal solutions for omics data.

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) Partners

Lifebit is on a mission to connect the world’s biomedical data to obtain novel therapeutic insights. Their customers work with vast cohorts of linked genomic, multiomic, and clinical data—these data volumes are expanding rapidly. With Amazon Omics they will have access to optimized analytics and storage for this large-scale data, allowing Lifebit to provide even more scalable bioinformatics solutions. Lifebit’s customers will benefit from significantly lower cost per gigabase of data, essentially achieving hot storage performance at cold storage prices. This will help remove cost as a barrier to generating insights from their population-scale biomedical data. Visit https://www.lifebit.ai/ to learn more.

Ovation is a genomic data company committed to accelerating the development of precision medicine, making it easier for patients to live long and healthy lives by accessing therapeutics that are tailored to their needs. Amazon Omics variant stores help Ovation achieve that mission by getting their genomic data into the hands of researchers faster and at scale. Ovation is excited to be building a team of industry experts and partners that are helping personalized medicines get to market quicker. Visit https://www.ovation.io to learn more.

Consulting Partners

BioTeam is a life sciences IT consulting company passionate about accelerating scientific discovery by closing the gap between what scientists want to do with data—and what they can do. In many of our engagements, we work with our clients to help simplify automating the collection, organization, and transformation of data from large genomics sequencing efforts for our clients. Using Amazon Omics as one of our tools helps us accelerate their workflows more quickly and easily. Visit https://bioteam.net/ to learn more.

Cloud303 is a life sciences company created by cloud engineers with direct industry expertise to provide their customers with a full suite of life sciences consulting services. They specialize in HPC, Environment as a Service (EaaS), and Compliance/Process Awareness and Consulting. When it comes to Amazon Omics, they see several benefits for their existing and future customers. Their “sequencing as a service” customers can use this as drop-in replacements for their more cumbersome storage solutions. Their customers who are iterating on workflows can now quickly deploy Amazon Omics for each workflow with less setup time and less overall cost. Visit https://www.cloud303.io/ to learn more.

Diamond Age Data Science partners with fast-moving biopharma companies to drive innovation through computational biology. They help customers get started with Amazon Omics—running bioinformatic pipelines in the cloud with no need for underlying infrastructure. They design and build production-grade pipelines, tools, and systems to suit customer needs, and help with experimental design and data analysis, providing tailored solutions for customers biggest challenges. Visit https://diamondage.com/ to learn more.

Loka is a Silicon Valley-based full-stack consultancy that helps the most ambitious healthcare and life sciences startups move to market faster. Since 2004, they’ve helped founders and leaders accelerate and nail their AI/ML, DevOps, Big Data, and Design projects. Customers leverage their AWS infrastructure knowledge and deep domain expertise to run the most computationally-intensive bioinformatics jobs, including genomics workflow orchestration and protein structure prediction. With Amazon Omics, Loka will help life sciences customers unify siloed data in the cloud for faster analysis using its intuitive interface. Visit https://loka.com/ to learn more.

PTP is focused on accelerating the pace of life sciences research through automation as well as high performance computational biology, chemistry, data science and machine learning. PTP helps architect, implement, and optimize AWS solutions that enable life science organizations to develop faster, lower IT costs, and scale their operations. With Amazon Omics, PTP will be able to better support the bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists at their life sciences clients to exponentially innovate at a lower cost. Visit https://ptp.cloud/aws-for-life-sciences-practice/ to learn more.

Tennex is a born-in-the-cloud AWS consulting partner that simplifies the cloud journey for emerging and established biotechnology companies. Leverage their comprehensive portfolio of infrastructure as code, automated workflows, proven delivery methodologies, and a team of highly specialized AWS experts to simplify and accelerate your cloud journey. With Amazon Omics, Tennex is excited to bring customers a cleaner, straightforward view into sequencing data and an increased ability to process and query it in the same user experience. Tennex believes that utilizing Amazon Omics will inherently create cleaner datasets that are uncomplicated to manage at scale while enabling faster access to valuable insights. Visit https://www.tennex.io/ to learn more.

You can learn more about Amazon Omics, contact an AWS Representative, or an AWS Partner to get started.

Aaron Friedman, PhD

Aaron Friedman, PhD

Aaron Friedman, PhD is a Principal Product Manager for Amazon Omics. He listens to customers, defines requirements, and ensures that AWS helps customers advance scientific discovery and precision medicine. Prior to that, he spent 5+ years in AWS solutions architect leadership roles, helping healthcare and life sciences ISVs, SIs, and startups build on AWS. Outside of work, he loves to spend time with his family and learn new things to cook.

Mary Olson

Mary Olson

Mary Olson is a Senior Product Manager with the Health AI services team at AWS. She has 10+ years in the Life Sciences industry working across multiple disciplines to develop more efficient tools for scientists and researchers. When she's not working, she enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.

Lee Pang

Lee Pang

Lee is a Principal Bioinformatics Architect with the Health AI services team at AWS. He has a PhD in Bioengineering and over a decade of hands-on experience as a practicing research scientist and software engineer in bioinformatics, computational systems biology, and data science developing tools ranging from high throughput pipelines for *omics data processing to compliant software for clinical data capture and analysis.