Tag: genomics

Digital transformation in medicine is paving the way for innovation across healthcare disciplines, and integrated diagnostics is one area seeing significant breakthroughs. Dan Sheeran, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS), sat down with Dr. Jonathan Usuka, Chief Strategy and Informatics Officer at REALM, to understand the drivers behind healthcare’s […]

New AWS for Health Guidance: Multi-modal and Multi-omics The new era of personalized health relies on data to guide more customized patient treatments, therapeutics, and diagnoses. Genomics sits at the core of personalized health, and by taking into account the individual variability among people and diseases, clinicians can create more personalized care journeys and targeted treatments. […]

Karen Miga, PhD, associate director of the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and Adam Phillippy, PhD, senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute, join Ankit Malhotra, PhD, Genomics Lead, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS), to discuss how their team leveraged technological advancements to assemble the first complete human reference […]

At AWS, we often talk about the Art of What’s Possible. What would it look like to use machine learning and quantum compute to run advance protein folding algorithms? What would be possible if researchers could use high-performance compute to analyze and make Cryo-EM data accessible to the wider community? And the question that motivates us—what […]

re:MARS is back! This year, re:MARS is happening in person from Las Vegas, NV from June 21-24, delivering cutting edge talks, demos, workshops, and networking opportunities, as well as a rich on-demand option for virtual attendees. The event is offering 100+ sessions spanning Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space tracks, with six of them focused […]

Patients, caregivers, and providers all want better treatments, more equitable access to care, and ultimately healthier communities. Achieving these goals requires changing how we approach health and making it more personal by integrating genomics into therapeutic development, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to guide and improve clinical workflows, and even incorporating social […]

AWS brings together industry leaders to discuss creating a digital foundation for personalized health Patients, caregivers, and providers all want better treatments, more equitable access to care, and ultimately healthier communities. And that means personalizing how we look at health, from integrating genomics data into therapeutic development, to leveraging AI to improve clinician workflows, and […]

Today, AWS for Genomics announces the addition of miniWDL as a workflow engine in Amazon Genomics CLI, an open source tool that makes it easier to run genomics workflows at-scale by automating the deployment of workflow engines and compute clusters. MiniWDL is a lightweight engine for running Workflow Definition Language (WDL) based workflows developed by […]

For some, 2021 was definitely a year to forget and for others it was filled with moments to remember. COVID-19 impacted every aspect of life, but for health organizations, like hospitals, life sciences companies, and genomics research organizations, 2021 was a year of monumental change, and that change centered around the patient. With a shared […]

Healthcare and life sciences organizations are reinventing how they collaborate, make data driven clinical and operational decisions, enable precision medicine, and decrease the cost of care. AWS for Health, a curated offering of AWS services and AWS Partner Network solutions designed for healthcare and life sciences customers, provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help […]