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Powering genomics innovations
For more than a decade, AWS has helped healthcare and life science organizations accelerate the translation of raw sequencing data into actionable insights through scalable, secure, and cost effective industry solutions.
AWS and AWS Partners have purpose-built services, tools, and solutions to help you migrate and securely store genomic data in the AWS cloud, accelerate secondary and tertiary analysis, and integrate genomic data into multi-modal datasets. Industry leaders such as Ancestry, AstraZeneca, Illumina, DNAnexus, Genomics England, and GRAIL, leverage AWS to accelerate time to insights while reducing costs and keeping their data secure.
Highlights
Why Genomics on AWS
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AWS for Genomics: purpose-built industry solutions
Data transfer and storage
The volume and velocity of genomic data continues to increase in response to reduced sequencing costs and broader adoption. With AWS and AWS Partner solutions and services, you can transfer large volumes of genomic data to the cloud, reduce long term data storage costs, and collaborate securely across the globe.
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Stanford University
Stanford researchers accelerate autism research by sharing genomic data in the cloud.
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National Institute of Health
NIH’s Sequence Read Archive, the world’s largest genome sequence repository: Openly accessible on AWS
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Secondary analysis
Optimize workflows and reduce analysis time with a variety of workflow automation and secondary analysis solutions, including Cromwell, Nextflow, DRAGEN, and Sentieon.
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Astrazeneca
Astrazeneca’s genomics data processing solution runs 51 billion tests in 1 day on AWS.
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Illumina utilizes AWS to provide global, scalable access to its DRAGEN pipelines.
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Data aggregation and governance
Discover solutions designed to simplify aggregating, storing, querying, analyzing, and governing genomics datasets, while quickly linking them with other forms of medical data. AWS provides robust data access controls and permissions to maintain data integrity as more collaborators and stakeholders come on board.
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Lifebit
To 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.
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FDA's precisionFDA multi-omics cloud environment leverages AWS to connect data and tools to experts around the world, for validating variant calling technology.
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Tertiary analysis and ML
With access to powerful machine learning and high-performance compute resources, you can turn genomic data into biological insight, informing drug discovery and clinical applications. Find greater computing efficiency at-scale, reproducible data processing, data integration capabilities for pulling in multi-modal datasets that accelerate the discovery of insights and uncover new correlations, and public data for clinical annotation―all in a compliance-ready environment.
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QBiC
A distributed infrastructure helps QBiC analyze gene expression to find mutations that may be involved in cancer.
Read the case study »Clinical genomics
With insights from patient's 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 secure and compliant solutions to implement genomics in a clinical setting.
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Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance
Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance uses AWS to support genomic testing for cancer and rare diseases.
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Raise the bar on security and compliance
To help genomics organization adhere to industry compliance regulations, and protect PHI, AWS maintains more security standards and compliance certifications than any other offering, including: HITRUST, GDPR compliance, FedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ISO 3425.
Innovate with key industry partners
Discover purpose-built genomics solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS.
AWS Partner Network
Customers can work with AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners to build innovative, cost-effective, and secure solutions that have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building genomics solutions on AWS.
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AWS Marketplace
Accelerate innovation through the continuum of care with third-party genomics solutions.
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