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St. Jude Cloud

Apr 12, 2018

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in partnership with DNANexus and Microsoft, has introduced St. Jude Cloud, a public repository of genomics data on pediatric cancer. The St. Jude Cloud platform, which includes free analytics and visualization tools, contains more than 5,000 anonymized whole-genome sequences and 1,200 RNA sequences from young cancer patients. Researchers also are able to upload their own data for analysis and visualization on the cloud-based platform.

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