Category: Life Sciences

Retrieving, processing, and analyzing electronic lab notebook (ELN) data is slow, costly, and labor intensive. AWS storage, databases, and artificial intelligence/machine learning services can significantly enhance knowledge retrieval speed, unlock unstructured ELN assets, facilitate building knowledge graphs, and form scalable and cost-effective processing pipelines. Introduction ELN is computer software heavily used in research settings (especially […]

Blog is guest authored by Chong Duan, Amey Kelekar, and Mary Kate Montgomery from Pfizer Echocardiography (echo) is an ultrasound-based, non-invasive imaging modality. Manual analysis of echo data is time consuming and susceptible to inter-reader variability. Pfizer has developed a fully automated analysis framework that significantly reduced analysis time by more than 92% using Amazon […]

re:Invent is an opportunity to dive into innovative technologies and explore new ideas, and for healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) organizations, it is the time to think about how to reinvent collaborations, improve data driven decision making, and drive new discoveries, all with the goal of improving patient outcomes. At re:Invent 2022, we continued our […]

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 […]

We would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions of David Obenshain, Gargi Singh Chhatwal, and Joshua Broyde, who are Solutions Architects at AWS. With the rapid advancement and use of Genomic sequencing within research and clinical organizations, we need reliable, reproducible, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure to manage data and compute resources. Organizations want to spend […]

This is the first installation of a two-part series detailing the launch of Amazon Omics. The second installation provides deeper technical details. We are excited to launch the general availability of Amazon Omics–a purpose-built service that will help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, query, analyze, and generate insights from genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. […]

Blog is guest authored by Nitin Kaul and Guglielmo Iozzia of Merck & Co., Inc. Improving the productivity of manufacturing operations is vital for pharmaceutical companies, so patients can get the critical medicines they need, faster. While patient safety has always been the highest priority, Merck & Co., Inc. (MSD), the leading global biopharmaceutical company, […]

Celebrating its 11th year, AWS re:Invent 2022 is gearing up to deliver a week of inspiring content, educational workshops and boot camps—all with plenty of peer-to-peer networking opportunities. This year’s conference will take place in Las Vegas, NV from November 28th through December 1st, and will have an engaging virtual component for those who cannot […]

Many Life Sciences organizations struggle with lab digitalization that can scale, automate data tasks, enable AI/ML, and create collaborative environments that support diverse R&D efforts. The AWS Digital Lab Strategy is a set of services, architectures, and partners to help take advantage of cloud scale and agility. Efforts to build digital lab capabilities seem to […]

At this year’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Industry Innovators Summit, Louis Culot, Innovation Strategy Leader, Precision Diagnosis at Philips, explained how the company is using cloud technology to integrate disciplines and data, to make precision medicine in oncology more accessible. In this interview, Lisa McFerrin, Worldwide Head of Genomics Solutions at AWS, continues the conversation […]