Tag: genomics

The AWS Life Sciences Team is excited about the upcoming Bio-IT World Conference and Expo 2023 in Boston from May 16-18. The symposium unites a community of life sciences and technology experts from around the world, and is the world’s premier event showcasing the technologies and analytic approaches that solve problems, accelerate science, and drive […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Blog guest authored by Andreas Wilm, Director of Computational Biology and Lorenz Gerber, Associate Director of Software Engineering, at ImmunoScape. Discovering next-gen TCR cell therapies can involve processing and analyzing hundreds of multi-omics patient samples regularly. Leveraging the cloud, biotech startup ImmunoScape has been able to analyze more than 20 trillion data points (generating genomics […]

Blog guest-authored by Mustaqhusain Kazi, Global Head of Roche Informatics Strategy and Digital Innovation, and Neeraj Agarwal, Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Foundational Tech, PHC and Science at Roche. In the 1990s, the “blockbuster model” reigned supreme, with pharmaceutical companies designing therapies for larger populations with a one-size-fits-all approach. Today, with increased digitization and an explosion of patient […]

What does the future of cancer treatment look like for patients, doctors, and researchers, and what is cloud computing’s role in its success? Rowland Illing, Director and CMO, Government Health at Amazon Web Services (AWS), sat down with Prabhu Arumugam, Genomics England’s Director of Clinical Data and Imaging, and Emma McCargow, Program Lead for Cancer […]