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Author: Erin Chu, DVM, Ph.D.
Erin Chu is the life sciences lead on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) open data team. Trained to bridge the gap between the clinic and the lab, Erin is a veterinarian and a molecular geneticist, and spent the last four years in the companion animal genomics space. She is dedicated to helping speed time to science through interdisciplinary collaboration, communication, and learning.
NIH’s Sequence Read Archive, the world’s largest genome sequence repository: Openly accessible on AWS
AWS and the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) are happy to announce that the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) – one of the world’s largest repositories of raw next generation sequencing data, will be freely accessible from Amazon S3 via the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). The SRA is currently […]
DRAGEN reanalysis of the 1000 Genomes Dataset now available on the Registry of Open Data
Guest authored by Bryan Lajoie, Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina Inc. — We are pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive reanalysis of 3,202 deeply-sequenced samples from the 1000 Genomes Project(1kGP) using the Illumina DRAGEN (Dynamic Read Analysis for GENomics) Bio-IT platform. This seminal dataset will be freely available for researchers across the world to use […]
Broad Institute gnomAD data now accessible on the Registry of Open Data on AWS
Co-authored by Grace Tiao, Associate Director of Computational Genomics at the Broad Institute and Erin Chu, DVM, Ph.D., Life Sciences Lead, AWS Open Data Program Today we announce that data from the Genome Aggregation Consortium (gnomAD) is available for the first time on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of the Registry of Open Data […]