Cloud giants form alliance to accelerate genome research

BGI Online is a cloud platform for genomics data analysis.

At the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston this week, BGI announced that they will work alongside Broad Institute, Intel and Alibaba Cloud in an effort to bring cloud-based and free access to the to the latest version of the Genome Analysis Tool Kit (GATK4) software package on the BGI Online platform.

Eric Banks, senior director of Data Sciences and Data Engineering at the Broad Institute, comments, “in our global effort to drive breakthroughs in human health, high-quality data is paramount.”

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