AWS for Genomics
AWS and AWS Partners offer purpose-built solutions across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs.
What's New
Leading organizations are accelerating genomic discoveries on AWS
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Illumina
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Illumina delivers integrated systems for analyzing genetic variation and biological function. Illumina builds on AWS to gain more compute power while reducing monthly costs, enabling the organization to pass along cost savings and scalability to its customers.
“Genomics — next-generation sequencing (NGS) in particular — are the foundation for personalized medicine. The ability to rapidly and inexpensively sequence entire genomes in individuals and populations drives innovations: non-invasive pregnancy testing, rare disease diagnoses, advanced tumor testing, and many others. For the last decade, we've collaborated with AWS to provide secure and scalable tools and services to researchers around the globe to power these innovations. The AWS for Health initiative supports our mission of improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome."
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AstraZeneca
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AstraZeneca is accelerating the use of genomics in precision medicine and furthering the translation of genomics to transform drug discovery. On AWS, the company can process 51 billion tests in 1 day.
“We’ve provided genetics input into more than 40 of AstraZeneca’s drug discovery projects in 2020 using these capabilities."
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DNAnexus
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DNAnexus provides data and tool sharing and management for genomic research. The company builds on AWS to deliver tens of thousands of compute cores, store petabytes of data, and offer the reliability, security, and compliance required for highly complex and sensitive research activities.
“With AWS, DNAnexus enables enterprises worldwide to perform genomic analysis and clinical studies in a secure and compliant environment at a scale not previously not possible."
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Ancestry
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Ancestry® is a global leader in family history and consumer genomics. The elasticity and flexibility of Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) enables Ancestry to navigate workflow spikes and meet global demands.
"Using Amazon EFS, we don’t have to worry about scaling research workloads—the system can grow automatically to meet our researchers’ needs, no matter what the compute and storage requirements are. Using AWS, we can spend more of our time identifying new ways to help customers discover their unique family history."
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GRAIL
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GRAIL, a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured, utilizes cutting edge genomics and machine learning technology powered by AWS to identify the presence of cancer by looking at DNA fragments that cancer cells shed into the bloodstream.
Solution Areas
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Data Transfer & Storage
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Secondary Analysis
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Data Aggregation & Governance
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Tertiary Analysis & ML
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Clinical Genomics
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Data Transfer & Storage
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Genomics Data Transfer & StorageThe volume and velocity of genomic data continues to increase in response to reduced sequencing costs and broader adoption across biopharma, research, and healthcare providers. AWS and AWS Partners offer solutions to help organizations optimize data management, reduce storage costs, access industry data, and securely collaborate.
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Data Transfer & Migration
Solutions for the transfer and storage of genomic data. Stream data directly from your sequencer or on-premises infrastructure into the AWS Cloud for low-cost data storage, all within a secure and compliant environment.
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Featured AWS Services
Featured CustomersIllumina delivers integrated systems for analyzing genetic variation and biological function. The company leverages AWS to reduce its monthly storage costs by tiering some of its data into Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA).Read case study »Munich Leukemia Lab (MLL) is a diagnostics and research institution whose mission is to find a cure for leukemia and lymphoma. To deal with its growing need for scalable compute and storage while maintaining a high standard for data security, MLL turned to AWS, leveraging Illumina’s BaseSpace solution in the AWS Frankfurt region.Read case study »Genuity Sciences, previously Genomics Medicine Ireland, offers expertise and infrastructure focused on translating information into insight to transform human health. The organization runs multiple studies to advance development of disease treatment, and leverages fast, reliable on-premises connectivity to AWS Cloud storage for rapid uploading of large datasets, shortening the time required for processing, while achieving cost savings.Watch video »
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"Committed to enabling researchers to manage massive volumes of multi-omic data, we built Illumina Connected Analytics, a comprehensive cloud-based platform facilitating data management, analysis, and interpretation of large volumes of multi-omics data on the secure, scalable, and flexible environment of AWS."
"The Seven Bridges platform and Seven Bridges analysis tools such as GRAF™ and ARIA™ rely on the flexibility and scalability of AWS to enable researchers to take advantage of massive repositories of genomic and phenotypic data — which have the potential to reveal transformative insights into the underpinnings of disease, novel therapeutic approaches and in silico disease models."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceNetApp Cloud Manager is the management and automation platform used for deploying and operating NetApp's Cloud Data Services.
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Secure Collaboration
Solutions that enable secure industry collaboration and data sharing. AWS and AWS Partners offers scalable, cost-efficient, and easily maintainable solutions for quick, secure, and effective worldwide collaboration.
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Featured AWS Services
Featured CustomersThe Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance is working to make genomics a part of everyday medicine across Victoria's decentralized healthcare system. Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance established GenoVic to support accredited testing laboratories that are processing genomic tests. Built on AWS services, GenoVic can enable sharing of genomic data across Alliance members, enabling authorized users to discover, request, and gain access to sharable genomic data in a controlled, highly secure environment.Read case study »Lifebit CloudOS, a fully federated cloud operating system, uses AWS to unlock clinicogenomic data for drug and biomarker discovery. With Genomics England, Lifebit created a system with automated tools that researchers use to securely collaborate on large datasets in seconds. Lifebit CloudOS, a fully federated cloud operating system, reengineered the traditional model for securing data—bringing its compute engine and analytics to the data itself - using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). As a result, Lifebit enables customers including Genomics England to build secure, scalable platforms for democratized, collaborative access to genomic data.
Biogen is a life sciences company dedicated to eradicating neurological diseases, and is a participant in a massive U.K. genomics sequencing project with 500,000 participants. Biogen’s AWS architecture enabled it to effortlessly work with partners to analyze data.Read case study »
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"Seven Bridges leverages the power of AWS to ensure that the world’s most precious data — genomic and health care data gathered from individuals around the globe — remains secure while still being accessible for the collaborative use of researchers and drug developers in biopharma, clinical settings, academia and government."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceDataEz is a modular, scalable, secure, and compliant data analytics platform designed for Life Sciences. Customers can deploy core infrastructure, configure managed data services, and chain multiple data services together to create custom data pipelines.
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Genomic Data Sharing
Solutions for the responsible and secure sharing of genomic data. AWS and its partners provide the tools, solutions, and security needed to host, access, and contribute to genomic datasets worldwide.
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SolutionsSolution: Registry of Open Data on AWSThe Registry of Open Data (RODA) on AWS makes it easy for people to find datasets that are publicly available through AWS. RODA hosts more than 70 life sciences databases, including the Cancer Genome Atlas and Genome Aggregation Database.
Featured CustomersThe Allen Institute for Cell Science’s Allen Cell Explorer uses AWS infrastructure developed by AWS Partner Quilt Data to manage and release terabyte-scale data pipelines. Using Quilt on AWS, the institute's data is much more discoverable, resulting in an increase in usage and downloads of data.Read customer story »Artem Babaian,Ph.D., a researcher at the University of British Columbia, leveraged the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Sequence Read Archive (SRA) on the AWS Registry of Open Data to identify 130,000 new viruses in 11 days.
The Wall Lab at Stanford University sought to answer one of the most pressing questions in neuroscience: What genes influence autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? With support from the AWS Cloud Credit for Research program, Stanford leveraged Amazon EC2 and Amazon Athena to extract insights, and now offers access to the iHART dataset through the Registry of Open Data on AWS.
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"Seven Bridges leverages the power of AWS to ensure that the world’s most precious data — genomic and health care data gathered from individuals around the globe — remains secure while still being accessible for the collaborative use of researchers and drug developers in biopharma, clinical settings, academia and government."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceDataEz is a modular, scalable, secure, and compliant data analytics platform designed for Life Sciences. Customers can deploy core infrastructure, configure managed data services, and chain multiple data services together to create custom data pipelines.
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Secondary Analysis
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Workflow Automation and Secondary AnalysisSolutions for workflow automation and secondary analysis of genomic data. AWS and AWS Partners provide a robust suite of secondary analysis tools for a variety of genomics applications, all available at-scale.
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Workflow Automation
Solutions for the automation and orchestration of genomic workflows. AWS, AWS Partners, and the open-source community provide services to help accelerate research, simplify implementation and deployment, and scale compute capabilities.
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SolutionsSolution: Automate genomic workflows on AWS with Amazon Genomics CLIAmazon Genomics CLI is an open source tool that provides an easy-to-use command line interface to quickly setup and run genomics workflows on AWS, enabling faster and more cost-effective population-level genetics studies, drug discovery cycles, and more.
Solution: Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS BatchThe Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch solution creates a scalable environment in AWS to develop, build, deploy, and run genomics secondary analysis pipelines, for example, processing raw whole genome sequences into variant calls.
Solution: Cromwell on AWSWith Cromwell on AWS, researchers and scientists have even more flexibility in scaling genomics experiments using computing capabilities in the cloud – instead of competing for limited on-premises resources.
Solution: Nextflow on AWSNextflow on AWS enables the creation and orchestration of analysis workflows and AWS Batch to run the workflow processes.
Featured AWS Services
Featured CustomersFred Hutch Microbiome Research Initiative (MRI) consists of a team of researchers engaged in analysis of the microbiome in efforts to manipulate microbiomes to make therapeutic cancer drugs more effective. To accelerate its research, the team uses the Nextflow framework to orchestrate AWS Batch processes and scale the high-performance computing platform to accelerate processing time—reducing 7 years of compute time to 7 days.Read case study »Gritstone Oncology is advancing the field of immuno-oncology to fight cancer in patients with the most difficult-to-treat tumors. The company leverages AWS on-demand compute power and a Nextflow-driven shared job queue that dispatches job and handles data flow to provide a logical orchestration engine for analysis pipelines.Read customer story »Helix is a personal genomics platform company that is trying to lower the barrier for anyone who wants to develop software that utilizes genomics information. Helix uses BaseSpace Sequence Hub, an integrated software platform designed for genomic data analysis from APN Partner Illumina, to power its platform.Watch video »
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"Seqera Labs and AWS have collaborated to ensure that AWS is the environment of choice for life science workloads. Nextflow and Nextflow Tower are seamlessly integrated into AWS Batch for elastic compute, EKS for seamless deployment, and AWS file and object storage services for cost-effective and performant data storage."
"The Seven Bridges platform and Seven Bridges analysis tools such as GRAF™ and ARIA™ rely on the flexibility and scalability of AWS to enable researchers to take advantage of massive repositories of genomic and phenotypic data — which have the potential to reveal transformative insights into the underpinnings of disease, novel therapeutic approaches and in silico disease models."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceThe DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform by Illumina enables ultra-rapid analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data for large data sets, such as whole genomes, exomes, and genes/panels. The analysis includes mapping, aligning, sorting, duplicate marking, small variant calling, and more.
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Secondary Analysis
Solutions for secondary analysis of genomic data. AWS and AWS Partners enable access to a robust suite of secondary analysis tools for a variety of genomics applications, all available at-scale.
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SolutionsSolution: DRAGEN on AWSIllumina's Dynamic Read Analysis for Genomics (DRAGEN) on AWS enables ultra-rapid analysis of next-generation sequencing data.
Solution: Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS BatchThe Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch solution creates a scalable environment in AWS to develop, build, deploy, and run genomics secondary analysis pipelines, for example, processing raw whole genome sequences into variant calls.
Featured CustomersGlobal biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is accelerating the use of genomics in precision medicine and furthering the translation of genomics to transform drug discovery. AstraZeneca used AWS tools to develop a cloud-based bioinformatics solution for rapid genomic processing and analytics, and is able to run over 51 billion statistical tests in under 24 hours.Read case study »Munich Leukemia Lab (MLL) is dedicated to finding a cure for leukemia and lymphoma. MLL uses state-of-the-art molecular and IT-supported methods to shape the future of hematological diagnostics and therapy. With AWS, MLL reduced the turnaround time to process patient genome data from 20 hours to 3 hours, helping accelerate research and improve diagnosis of leukemia.Read case study »Accuracy and speed are essential to unlocking the power of the human genome. The DRAGEN Bio-IT platform by Illumina, provides accurate, ultra-rapid secondary analysis results. Customers can power and dramatically accelerate their analyses with DRAGEN running on AWS EC2 F1 instances.
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"NVIDIA Clara Parabricks Pipelines is a GPU-accelerated compute framework, supporting genomic applications that span DNA to RNA. The acceleration of Parabricks coupled to the scalability of AWS is powering the genomics industry to perform projects faster, more cost effectively, and letting researchers identify more genetic variants in their data."
The Seven Bridges platform and Seven Bridges analysis tools such as GRAF™ and ARIA™ rely on the flexibility and scalability of AWS to enable researchers to take advantage of massive repositories of genomic and phenotypic data — which have the potential to reveal transformative insights into the underpinnings of disease, novel therapeutic approaches and in silico disease models."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceThe Sentieon Genomics Suite provides tools for secondary analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, and is built to run on any generic CPU-based system.
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Data Aggregation & Governance
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Data Aggregation & GovernanceSuccessful genomics research and interpretation depend on diverse, multi-modal datasets. AWS and AWS Partners provide solutions design to simplify aggregating, storing, querying, analyzing, and governing genomics data sets, quickly linking them with clinical information. AWS also provides robust data access controls and permissions to maintain data integrity as more collaborators and stakeholders come onboard.
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Multi-modal Analysis
Solutions to enable the combination of genomic data with imaging, phenotypic, and other forms of medical data to provide a more holistic view of a patient or robust insights into an area of study. AWS Partners offer a variety of multi-omic and multi-modal tools hosted on the AWS Cloud.
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Featured AWS Services
Featured CustomersParadigm4, a science-driven data analytics platform, produces an agile, end-to-end solution that enables scientists to quickly analyze their data. Paradigm4 SciDB is built with AWS services so customers like drug company Alnylam can store multidimensional and scientific data accessibly.Read case study »Fauna Bio aims to uncover genes relevant to human health by identifying genes that combat diseases in animals. To that end, Fauna Bio has created a platform hosted on AWS. Users can choose from comparative genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics data; select affected tissues of interest; designate the type of therapy to potentially develop; and see a visual map of resulting gene networks.Read case study »
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
“DNAnexus Apollo on AWS powers the UK Biobank’s Research Analysis Platform, which allows scientists to query, analyze, and visualize integrated demographic, clinical, genomic, and imaging data to rapidly test multiple hypotheses and gain insight into mechanisms of action, biomarkers, and drug targets."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceNextflow Tower is a central command post for Nextflow pipelines, providing monitoring, logging, and observability across clusters. Nextflow Tower enables pipelines to be built and operated at scale, while compliantly protecting data and allowing secure collaboration.
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Population Genomics
Solutions for identifying patterns in the genome within and among populations. AWS and AWS Partners provide resources for managing, accessing, and querying population-scale genomic data, enabling inferences about evolution, increasing the understanding of diseases, and ultimately improving patient care.
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SolutionsSolution: Registry of Open Data on AWSThe Registry of Open Data on AWS provides open access to population genomic data, including the UK Biobank Pan-Ancestry Summary and the 1,000 Genomes Project.
Featured CustomersTo enable more democratized access to genomic data, Lifebit reengineered the traditional model for securing data—bringing its compute engine and analytics to the data itself. This new model, deployed by organizations such as Genomics England, is powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research. Teams at CSIRO and QIMR Berghofer joined forces to develop a prototype serverless genotype-phenotype (gen-phen) database on AWS. Researchers and clinicians can consolidate siloed datasets and filter in real time to identify medically similar patients and a team can then assign a description to the clinical phenotype, or phenome.Watch the video »To make genomic healthcare a reality, Genomics England (GEL) is transitioning from project to platform, using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Leveraging AWS tools including AWS Professional Services, Amazon S3, and Amazon EC2, and leveraging AWS Partners Lifebit and Kainos, GEL providers researchers with reliable, comprehensive, and privacy-compliant access to data generated from the 100,000 Genome Project and subsequent initiatives.
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"UK Biobank’s Research Analysis Platform, powered by DNAnexus on AWS, enables scientific discoveries that improve human health by empowering scientists to explore possible correlations across population-wide genomic and phenotypic data, easily create and compare the genetic and phenotypic features of custom cohorts and quickly conduct iterative analyses of cohort data."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceNextflow Tower is a central command post for Nextflow pipelines, providing monitoring, logging, and observability across clusters. Nextflow Tower enables pipelines to be built and operated at scale, while compliantly protecting data and allowing secure collaboration.
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Data Security & Compliance
Solutions for genomic data security and compliance. With AWS, you get capabilities that create a highly secure cloud environment and achieve industry compliance and regulations faster. AWS maintains a robust portfolio of compliance certifications, including: HITRUST, GDPR compliance, FedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 3425.
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SolutionsSolution: GDPR on AWSAWS offers services and resources to help customers manage GDPR requirements that may apply to their activities. New features are launched regularly, and AWS has 500+ features and services that are focused on security and compliance.
Solution: HIPAA on AWSDeploy an AWS cloud architecture that helps support your HIPAA-compliance program. An AWS Quick Start is available for health organizations involved in genomics who want to run workloads in AWS cloud within the scope of HIPAA. It includes AWS CloudFormation templates that automatically deploy the environment and configure AWS resources.
Solution: HITRUST on AWSAWS customers can design and implement an AWS environment, and use AWS services to support the requirements of HITRUST CSF. Customers can also use certain controls established under the HITRUST CSF validated assessment of AWS services.
Featured CustomersNationwide Children’s, an academic pediatric medical center, is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the United States. Genetic sequencing requires enormous computing power, and HIPAA concerns make security a top priority. In response, Nationwide Children’s Hospital developed a set of largely serverless bioinformatics tools to securely move clinical genomics from preparing DNA for sequencing to analyzing DNA sequence data and beyond. It also turned to AWS for tools to build security into its cloud applications.Read case study »Fabric Genomics provides genomic data analysis, classification, and reporting solutions, and more to institutions, labs, and sequencing programs. Its platform delivers full support for compliance with HIPAA and is backed by the security capabilities of AWS.Read case study »Lifebit CloudOS, a fully federated cloud operating system, powers collaborative research environment for Genomics England on AWS. Leveraging AWS, Lifebit reengineered the traditional model for securing data—bringing its compute engine and analytics to the data itself. This new model is powered by Amazon EC2, offering extra protection.Read case study »
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"Since 2015, our unique business relationship with AWS, driven through the Accenture AWS Business Group, has provided health and life sciences clients with deep technical expertise, extensive AWS experience and breakthrough innovations. We’re truly enabling them to take advantage of the promise of New Science, novel technology and human ingenuity."
"As healthcare digitally transforms, many companies are challenged to balance speed and agility with regulatory requirements of protecting sensitive health data and market pressures to innovate. ClearDATA operationalizes healthcare privacy and security, so customers can leverage AWS to quickly launch revolutionary therapies, diagnostics and tools without compromising valuable patient data."
"By making transformational change in healthcare and life sciences possible, we are committed to getting people the care they need to live a healthy, happy life. Slalom’s experts bring a profound passion and expertise for enabling healthcare and life sciences companies to accelerate and modernize genomics by designing and deploying secure, data-driven solutions leveraging AWS."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceClearDATA helps healthcare organizations alleviate the risk of non-compliance by continuously monitoring their environment with a user-friendly dashboard.
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Tertiary Analysis & ML
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Tertiary Analysis & Machine LearningInterpreting genomic data is a data-heavy discipline requiring robust compute resources. Using machine learning and high-performance computing, AWS and AWS Partner solutions turn this data into biological insight. You can access greater computing efficiency at scale, reproducible data processing, data integration capabilities for pulling in multi-modal datasets, and public data for clinical annotation—all in a compliance-ready environment.
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Pharma R&D
Solutions that help accelerate pharmacogenomics (PGx) and fuel the practice of personalized medicine. AWS and AWS Partners provide solutions to help organizations better understand how variants in patient genetic code dictate a response to medicine, which ultimately can lead to better outcomes for both individuals and healthcare providers.
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Featured AWS Services
Featured CustomersModerna's goal is to deliver on the promise of messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create novel medicines for unmet patient needs. Using AWS to power its drug research, development, and production processes, Moderna therapeutics delivers mRNA drugs faster at lower cost.Read case study »Global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is accelerating the use of genomics in precision medicine and furthering the translation of genomics to transform drug discovery. AstraZeneca used AWS tools to develop a cloud-based bioinformatics solution for rapid genomic processing and analytics, and is able to run over 51 billion statistical tests in under 24 hours.
Biogen is a life sciences company dedicated to eradicating neurological diseases, and is a pariticpant in a massive U.K. genomics sequencing project with 500,000 participants. To identify potential new disease therapies, find new gene targets, and better understand neurological disease biology, Biogen partnered wtih Databricks, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and an AWS Life Sciences Competency Partner, to design a software solution stack that harnessed AWS to analyze the data efficiently and securely.Read case study »
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"The Seven Bridges platform and Seven Bridges analysis tools such as GRAF™ and ARIA™ rely on the flexibility and scalability of AWS to enable researchers to take advantage of massive repositories of genomic and phenotypic data — which have the potential to reveal transformative insights into the underpinnings of disease, novel therapeutic approaches and in silico disease models."
Featured Consulting Partners
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Tertiary Analysis
Solutions to expedite the querying and interpretation of genomic datasets. AWS and AWS Partners offer tertiary analysis tools to help interpret genomic data and accelerate new discoveries in drug development and response predictions, diagnostics, disease surveillance, and wellness models.
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SolutionsSolution: Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Data Lakes Using AWS Glue and Amazon AthenaThe Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Data Lakes Using AWS Glue and Amazon Athena solution creates a scalable environment in AWS to prepare genomic data for large-scale analysis and perform interactive queries against a genomics data lake.
Solution: Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Machine Learning Using Amazon SagemakerThe Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Machine Learning Using Amazon SageMaker solution creates a platform in the AWS Cloud. Build machine learning models on genomic datasets using AWS managed services.
Solution: Hail on AWSHail on AWS enables simplified genomic analysis on Amazon EMR. Hail is an open-source library built for Apache Spark to provide scalable data exploration and analysis, with a particular emphasis on genomics.
Featured CustomersThe Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) operates as the central unit for bioinformatics and omics technologies of the University of Tübingen. Researchers at QBiC use high-performance computing to analyze genomics data and determine gene expression differences between diseased and normal tissue. A distributed infrastructure supported by AWS services helps QBiC analyze gene expression to find mutations that may be involved in cancer and complete research more quickly.Read case study »Celsius Therapeutics is on a mission to develop life-saving medicines and discover critical biomarkers for patient care by better understanding the cellular ecosystem of diseases through Single Cell Genomics and Machine Learning. The organization combines the power of single-cell RNA sequencing and machine learning on AWS to discover precision therapeutics for complex diseases such as autoimmunity and cancer.Watch video »Using AWS, Mission Bio built the Tapestri Platform to accelerate single-cell DNA analysis and remove bottlenecks from high-volume data processing and interpretation.The company relies on the AWS Cloud to create tools that support its customers’ variable compute needs, which include processing millions of genomes and billions of data points using Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"Databricks delivers a collaborative platform for genomic data processing, allowing continuous integration of, and analytics on, whole genomes at population scale. Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform and open source libraries, Delta Lake and Glow, along with the speed and flexibility of AWS, enables healthcare systems and researchers to accelerate the analysis of large-scale genomic data with improved data efficiency and discovery."
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceDatabricks Unified Data Analytics Platform is a cloud-based service for running your analytics in one place - from highly reliable and high-performance data pipelines to state-of-the-art machine learning.
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Clinical Genomics
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Clinical GenomicsWith insights from patient genetic codes, clinicians can make more accurate diagnoses and more effective treatment decisions faster. Industry leaders around the world rely on AWS and AWS Partner solutions to find meaning in genomics and help individuals with diagnosis and treatment decisions.
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Clinical Genomics
With insights from patient genetic codes, clinicians can make more accurate diagnoses and more effective treatment decisions faster. Industry leaders around the world rely on AWS and AWS Partner solutions to find meaning in genomics and help individuals with diagnosis and treatment decisions.
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SolutionsSolution: HIPAA on AWSAWS enables covered entities and their business associates subject to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to use the secure AWS environment to process, maintain, and store protected health information.
Featured CustomersThe Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance is working to make genomics a part of everyday medicine across Victoria's decentralzied healthcare system. With AWS as its cloud technology partner, the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance devised and built GenoVic, a shared clinical system that facilitates sequencing data management. GenoVic can support the testing of patients across a wide range of rare diseases, providing greater efficiencies for five laboratories.Read case study »Nationwide Children’s, an academic pediatric medical center, is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the United States. Nationwide Children’s Hospital processes compute-intensive clinical genomics data securely and at scale to diagnose and treat patients as it also works toward a greater understanding of human genomics. AWS delivers the massive compute power and storage space Nationwide Children’s Hospital needs to conduct clinical genomics.Read case study »Igenomix is one of the world’s leading providers of solutions for fertility problems. The company works with both fertility clinics and individuals, delivering genomics testing services that help increase the chances of becoming pregnant and having healthy babies, running its workloads on AWS EC2.Read case study »
Featured PartnersDiscover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners. Work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS across the genomics workflow, designed to help translate samples into actionable insights and scientific breakthroughs. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage genomics-specific solutions on AWS.
"DNAnexus Titan blends the scalability of AWS with a tailor made experience designed for large-scale genomic analyses. Combined with clinical information top pharma companies have been able to annotate variants and their functional consequences to the genome to identify new drug targets or reposition compounds in their drug portfolio."
“The Seven Bridges platform and Seven Bridges analysis tools such as GRAF™ and ARIA™ rely on the flexibility and scalability of AWS to enable researchers to take advantage of massive repositories of genomic and phenotypic data — which have the potential to reveal transformative insights into the underpinnings of disease, novel therapeutic approaches and in silico disease models.”
Featured Consulting PartnersAWS MarketplaceThe DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform by Illumina enables ultra-rapid analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data for large data sets, such as whole genomes, exomes, and genes/panels. The analysis includes mapping, aligning, sorting, duplicate marking, small variant calling, and more.
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