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PHEMI Central Precision Medicine Edition

Dec 15, 2016

PHEMI has launched the Central Precision Medicine Edition, an out-of-the-box solution leveraging Oracle Big Data appliance and built upon Hadoop Big Data technology for affordable scalability and fast query capabilities. It allows researchers to ingest, index, annotate, and search large amounts of genomic data and achieve sub-second query performance. The solution uses standard interfaces, such as the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health API, to provide integration with existing analytics tools, while PHEMI's built-in data management and privacy functionality enforce researcher's rightful access to data.

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