GenomeWeb GenomeWeb: Australia's CSIRO Looks Beyond Spike Protein to ID New COVID-19 Variants to be Monitored CHICAGO – Bioinformaticians in Australia are calling for a change in how epidemiologists monitor and predict new COVID-19 variants, using analytics software to sort through entire viral variant genomes rather than simply looking for
GenomeWeb GenomeWeb: CSIRO Develops Software to Detect Foreign DNA Without Reference Genomes CHICAGO – Bioinformaticians with the Australian e-Health Research Centre at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation have developed a computing algorithm to detect foreign DNA in whole-genome sequences by looking for shifts in
GenomeWeb Amazon Web Services Aims to Remove Computational 'Heavy Lifting' for Genomics Customers CHICAGO – Amazon Web Services has been expanding its reach into genomics in recent years and continues to grow in areas like molecular diagnostics through new initiatives. [..] read more at GenomeWeb. The article highlights
The Lighthouse The Lighthouse: World-first software could revolutionise how we understand disease An Australian machine-learning program is the first in the world to handle genomic datasets with a trillion data points, helping scientists decode the mysteries of inherited illness, says Macquarie University Honorary Associate Professor
AWS AWS DayOne: Helping Medical Researchers Save Lives - Machine Learning in Genomics It goes without saying that no two people are exactly alike. But when it comes to our health, these differences can have a huge impact in terms of how well we respond to
GenomeWeb GenomeWeb: Machine Learning Tool Enables Analysis of Complex, Polygenic Phenotypes With Epistastic Interactions CHICAGO – Bioinformaticians from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have released a computing method capable of analyzing complex, polygenic phenotypes that may involve epistatic interactions using massive sets of whole-genome data.
ZDNet ZDNet: Aussie researchers leverage compute power to analyse genomic data and match donors CSIRO has touted advances in processing data to pinpoint the location of specific disease-causing genes in the human genome, while PathWest is matching bone marrow donors with candidates. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
News itNews: CSIRO uses AI to crunch a trillion genomic data points To identify disease-causing genes. CSIRO researchers crunched one trillion genomic data points in the cloud to help locate parts of the human genome that cause disease. The CSIRO's bioinformatics group used its own
AICD AICD: AI and the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine The use of AI and machine learning will be instrumental in the race to find a vaccine for the COVID-19 pandemic, writes a team of CSIRO scientists. [..] Read more in the May edition
EurekAlert! EurekAlert!: CSIRO unlocks new way to understand evolving strains of SARS-CoV-2 Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unveiled a new approach to analysing the genetic codes - or the blueprint - of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The findings will help
News The Hindu: The SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, say scientists We’re aiming at getting a better understanding of the virus, they say.Even as the world is grappling to contain the COVID-19 epidemic spreading like a wildfire across the world with more
Health Industry Hub Health Industry Hub: Closing the gap between gene engineering and machine learning to foster research CSRIO and ANU researchers have collaborated to publish a review article translating between two distinct science domains to foster impactful cross-disciplinary research. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed many disciplines
The Mandarin The Mandarin: Information is power and it’s time to share Two case studies from vastly different fields of work — one about easing the pain of Sydney’s congested roads and the other related to cutting-edge medical science — highlight some of the advantages of
AFR AFR:CSIRO takes genome product to the world on Amazon The Australian Financial Review has covered VariantSpark's move to the AWS Marketplace. Read more at the Australian Financial Review
DCD DCD: How Australian Government agencies are embracing the cloud [..] For Dr Denis Bauer of the Australian federal government agency CSIRO (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), the cloud democratizes access to high-quality analysis for researchers. The principal research scientist and group
TechCircle TechCircle: CSIRO's Denis Bauer on how genomics is pushing the boundaries with AI, cloud computing What do you do when there is an increased risk of mortality or morbidity rate growing up in your country and the world in general due to disorders such as diabetes, chronic lung
Computerworld ComputerWorld: CSIRO launches serverless 'search engine for the genome' on Alibaba Cloud Trials of CRISPR/Cas9 are getting underway around the world. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9, to give it its full name, holds huge promise for tackling cancer, hereditary
ZDNet ZDNet: CSIRO's CUNE uses artificial intelligence to find disease genes Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Australian e-Health Research Centre have developed a more powerful way to find the genes that cause disease using artificial intelligence.
ZDNet ZDNet: CSIRO using serverless compute to analyse the human genome By 2025, it is estimated that 50 percent of world's population will have had their genome sequenced, which according to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) transformational bioinformatics team leader Dr Denis
AWS Genomic and Medical Big Data Go Serverless The teams at CSIRO and QIMR Berghofer have joined forces to develop a prototype serverless genotype-phenotype (gen-phen) database on AWS. Here’s how the tool works.
Databricks Databricks: How Apache Spark-based analysis and Databricks notebooks impact genomic research Databricks wrote a nice blog post about us. Catch it here.
