The institutions will develop a cloud-based storage and compute infrastructure for unrestricted and controlled-access data and metadata from NHGRI's projects.
In addition to the federal grant, the startup has received $125,000 from a Michigan technology fund to help commercialize its GPU-based analysis platform.
The UK-based maker of clinical genomics interpretation software is moving into the US and China after carefully researching the differences from European markets.
The framework, called HEAL, could be used as an early screening test for AAA and as a personal health management tool. In addition, it may be applicable to other complex diseases.
While "genomical" has not supplanted "astronomical" in the lexicon, geneticist Gene Robinson believes data scientists understand the sheer size of genomic information.
After a 2017 rebranding as Fabric Genomics, the former Omicia is looking to the future of genomics in community hospitals and national sequencing programs.
