Google Moves Into Genomics with Latest Collaboration

It looks like Google is at it again with its partnerships. This time the company is working with WuXi NextCode to enhance comprehensive genomics capabilities. The partnership includes hosting WuXi NextCODE's core suite of capabilities on Google Cloud and its availability on the Google Cloud Launcher marketplace. Join us at the BIOMEDevice Boston Expo,  April 18–19, 2018. Use promo code "MDDI" for 20% off conference registration and free expo access.  These include GORdb, WuXi NextCODE secondary analysis, the Sequence Miner case-control research application, and the Clinical Sequence Analyzer clinical interpretation system. At the same time, key Google genomics and research tools will be integrated and deployable in tandem with the WuXi NextCODE platform, beginning with the DeepVariant secondary analysis pipeline, alongside other open-source analysis pipelines and tools available through Google Cloud Platform. The companies plan to launch the first phase of the offering – at the BioIT World Conference & Expo in Boston in May. "WuXi NextCODE has been a pioneer of large-scale genomics, and we are thrilled to welcome them as a Google Cloud Partner," said Jonathan Sheffi, Product Manager, Genomics & Life Sciences at Google. "Our collaboration aims to create a powerful interoperable suite of capabilities to derive insight from sequence data." Google and its various divisions are no strangers to partnerships in the healthcare industry. The collaborations span across a...
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