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BIO-IT World | Is Precision Medicine Ready For Data From Billions Of Cells?

Popular opinion is that two big shifts have changed the game for bioinformatics. The first is a technology development—single cell ‘omics—that began just over 10 years ago, the other is a more recent move to a new model of drug discovery that looks to leverage the vast amounts of human genetic data now being generated in support of precision medicine.

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flexFS: A File System Transforming the Efficiency of Large-scale Cloud Analytics in Life Sciences and Beyond

Benchmarks highlight a system that’s faster AND cheaper: innovative throughput optimization can deliver over 500x higher aggregate throughput vs. leading elastic solutions, at under half the cost
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Foundational partnership with Paradigm4 enables Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to rapidly accelerate RNAi- based drug target discovery

25th October 2022: Paradigm4’s REVEAL Integrative Analytics platform enables Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to discover novel, genetically-validated drug targets from population scale biobank genotype-phenotype datasets and underlies the extraordinary pace and productivity of Alnylam’s RNAi therapeutics pipeline. Using Paradigm4’s cloud-based scientific analytics platform and data from the UK Biobank, Alnylam has identified

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Bio-IT World || Lessons From the Recent HCA 2022 General Meeting: Applying Single-Cell Data to Clinical Decision Making

The recent Human Cell Atlas (HCA) 2022 General Meeting, hosted in Vienna, Austria, provided a great opportunity for me to catch up on progress towards the HCA’s goal of mapping every cell type in the human body. I also got the chance to hear presentations that either highlighted new insights