UCSC and Amazon Web Services work to accelerate genomics research

Emily Cerf | UCSC | April 11, 2022

The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow researchers to quickly and efficiently execute bioinformatics pipelines on AWS’s global cloud infrastructure. AWS and UCSC are committed to accelerating genomics research by integrating the Dockstore project, a leading repository for scientific and biomedical workflows created in part by Genomics Institute researchers, with the recently released Amazon Genomics Command Line Interface (CLI). 

Researchers at the Genomics Institute seek to understand the mechanisms of human disease, and this work typically requires huge quantities of data and processing capabilities. Cloud-based platforms that store and run workflows make it possible to analyze such data, and are equally available to all researchers, independent of wealth and location.

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