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Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for Genomics

Jun 06, 2018

Databricks has launched the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for Genomics. The cloud-based platform provides collaborative workspaces prebuilt with genomic pipelines and tertiary analytics optimized to run at massive scale. Healthcare and life science organizations can easily build, scale, and deploy critical genomic analytics and machine learning models in minutes, Databricks noted. The platform also enables these organizations to process and analyze large-scale genomics data up to 100X faster than existing solutions, the company claimed.

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