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CSIRO uses AI to crunch a trillion genomic data points – iTnews
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 VariantSpark artificial intelligence (AI) based platform, which runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In a new study published in the technical journal Giga Science, the researchers outlined how they analysed a synthetic dataset of 100,000 individuals’ genomes, each made up of over three billion DNA base pairs.
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