AWS helps Genomics England’s Multimodal programme accelerate research with whole slide images
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This article discusses how AWS services help Genomics England's Multimodal programme accelerate research using whole slide images (WSIs) of pathology samples.
Specifically, the article covers:
- The importance of pathology slides and whole slide images in cancer diagnosis and research
- Genomics England's 100,000 Genomes Project to sequence genomes of cancer patients and collect associated pathology data
- How AWS services like Amazon S3, SageMaker, and Elastic Compute Cloud are used to store, process, and analyze the WSI data
- The value of combining genomic data with WSIs in multimodal "pathogenomic" approaches for cancer research
- Conclusion on how AWS enables Genomics England to prepare WSI data for researchers to gain new insights
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