Oxford Nanopore sequencers enables direct, real-time analysis of long DNA or RNA fragments. They work by monitoring changes to an electrical current as nucleic acids are passed through a protein nanopore. The resulting signal is decoded to …
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Celery is a great distributed task processing system and gets used in websites and enterprise apps everywhere. But sometimes those tasks aren’t little things that can be handled by microservices - they might need some heavy CPU or …
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We always worry the most about the compute nodes on a cluster (for a good reason - it’s where all the action is), but it’s worth taking a moment to think about your head node, because that’s where you can really define …
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In this blog post, we catch a glimpse into drug discovery to see how Evolvere Biosciences has deployed a customized architecture w/ AWS Batch and Nextflow to quickly and easily run its macromolecule design pipeline. Read the Post on the AWS …
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Amazon Braket is a service that’s quite different from our other compute offerings. It’s serverless, but .. the ‘servers’ that live behind it are in cryogenic labs all around the world. This is research, done …
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If you’ve ever had to stand up a rig on premises or in the cloud to run genomics pipelines, or do downstream analysis, you’ll know it’s not a small pile of packages you need to build, and connecting them all can be …
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If you have budget anxiety about overspending in your AWS account because you left something turned on, then Matt Vaughn has a solution for you. It’s a short procedure documented in a blog post that will let you send alerts to your …
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Sometimes creature comforts and easy buttons just rock. This is one of those times. If you’ve been using AWS Batch you might have often said ‘I wish I could put different information on this &^%# dashboard screen’. …
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