AWS HealthOmics
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Section titled “Concept”AWS HealthOmics is a service for storing and analyzing genome (DNA) and other biological data. Omics means huge collections of genomes and similar biological information. HealthOmics has storage for keeping DNA sequence data organized at low cost. It also has a way to run analysis steps (workflows), where scientists can use common workflow languages. AWS handles the computing needed, so you do not have to run a large server cluster yourself.
Simple example
Section titled “Simple example”A huge biology research lab where long strings of DNA are read and analyzed.
Why it’s needed
Section titled “Why it’s needed”Genome data is huge and needs a lot of computing to analyze.
Where it’s used
Section titled “Where it’s used”Medical research, personalized medicine, drug discovery.
Azure equivalent
Section titled “Azure equivalent”Microsoft Genomics
Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”For details and the latest information, see the official documentation: