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Driving precision oncology care using multi-modal data

Executive Conversations: Driving precision oncology care using multi-modal data with Louis Culot of Philips

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 […]

Executive Conversations: Catalyzing the next generation of cancer care with Prabhu Arumugam and Emma McCargow of Genomics England

Executive Conversations: Catalyzing the next generation of cancer care with Prabhu Arumugam and Emma McCargow of Genomics England

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 […]

Make the most of AWS re:Invent 2020 – Life Sciences Attendee Guide

AWS re:Invent routinely fills several Las Vegas venues with standing-room only crowds, but we are bringing it to you with an all-virtual and free event this year. This year’s conference is gearing up to be our biggest yet and we have an exciting program planned with five keynotes, 18 leadership sessions, and over 500 breakout […]

DRAGEN reanalysis of the 1000 Genomes Dataset now available on the Registry of Open Data

Guest authored by Bryan Lajoie, Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina Inc. — We are pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive reanalysis of 3,202 deeply-sequenced samples from the 1000 Genomes Project(1kGP) using the Illumina DRAGEN (Dynamic Read Analysis for GENomics) Bio-IT platform. This seminal dataset will be freely available for researchers across the world to use […]

Broad Institute gnomAD data now accessible on the Registry of Open Data on AWS

Co-authored by Grace Tiao, Associate Director of Computational Genomics at the Broad Institute and Erin Chu, DVM, Ph.D., Life Sciences Lead, AWS Open Data Program Today we announce that data from the Genome Aggregation Consortium (gnomAD) is available for the first time on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of the Registry of Open Data […]