UK Startup Lifebit Builds on Popular Nextflow Open-Source Genomics Platform

Oct 18, 2017

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CHICAGO (GenomeWeb) – While working on their respective PhDs at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, about five years ago, Maria Chatzou and Pablo Prieto noticed something about analysis of genomic data.

"We found ourselves using around 80 percent of our time on computational tasks rather than on actual research and results," Chatzou recalled.

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