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Lifebit Biotech CloudOS

Nov 07, 2019

Lifebit Biotech has introduced Lifebit CloudOS, a cloud-native, federated genomics operating system that supersedes the beta-release Lifebit Deploit from 2017. CloudOS works as a managed service of individual clouds or high-performance computing centers to support analysis of bioinformatics data across sites and institutions. The company said that this system automates analysis and the application of machine learning, removing a major barrier to precision medicine, population, genomics, drug discovery, and direct-to-consumer genetics progress. 

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