Category: AWS HealthOmics

From population sequencing, to drug discovery, to diagnostics research, omics data is driving a deeper understanding and personalization in how healthcare is delivered. While the value of multi-omics data is understood, our healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) customers want better tools to get started, build applications, and scale up analyses that will help lower costs […]

As a gold sponsor of the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo 2024 in Boston from April 15-17, the AWS Genomics team is excited to showcase how AWS HealthOmics, our purpose-built service used to transform omics data into insights, is transforming research and accelerating the future of precision medicine. This premier event brings together a global […]

Better data. Better insights. Better outcomes. The AWS for Healthcare team is heading to Orlando for the upcoming HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, March 11-15. In alignment with the event theme, “creating tomorrow’s health,” the AWS for Healthcare team will showcase our commitment to helping healthcare organizations generate better insights and better outcomes by […]

AWS HealthOmics is a managed service designed to help healthcare and life sciences organizations manage genomic and transcriptomic datasets cost-effectively. By automating metadata management, compression, and storage class tiering, HealthOmics frees up researchers to focus on analyzing omics data instead of spending time managing it. Storage efficiency, cost optimization and ease of access to omics […]

As a prelude to re:Invent 2023, AWS hosted the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) Executive Symposium in Las Vegas on Monday, November 27. The half-day, in-person event, attended by over 300 leaders from 180 organizations, centered around harnessing the power of data, analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative AI to accelerate innovation. This year’s symposium […]

Data governance strategies based on FAIR Data principles can increase operational efficiency and accelerate innovation in R&D. Amazon Web Services (AWS), along with partners such as TetraScience, enable pharmaceutical and biotech customers to adopt FAIR data governance practices with solutions that help process and store large-scale data for research and diagnostic purposes. This blog shows […]

AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible AWS service and provides fully-managed compute that helps customers process genomic, proteomic, and other varieties of -omic data securely and at scale in AWS. It supports common workflow definition languages—including WDL, Nextflow, and CWL—and secure access to data stored in Amazon S3 and AWS HealthOmics Storage. In this blog post, we cover […]

The FAIR data principles were first proposed in a seminal paper published in 2016 in the Journal Scientific Data. It was written by a group of international experts in data management and curation. To address the challenges that the research community is facing, they proposed FAIR Principles as a framework for making data more discoverable, […]