Building a secure and low-code bioinformatics workbench on AWS HealthOmics
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The article describes a solution for building a secure and low-code bioinformatics workbench on AWS HealthOmics, a suite of services for storing, querying, analyzing, and generating insights from genomic and other biological data. The solution was developed through a collaboration between Singapore General Hospital, SingHealth Office of Academic Informatics, and Amazon Web Services.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Challenges faced in traditional on-premises environments for processing large genomic datasets
- Overview of AWS HealthOmics and its components: HealthOmics storage, HealthOmics analytics, and HealthOmics Workflows
- Workflow dependencies pipeline for pulling required containers, scanning for vulnerabilities, and pushing to Amazon ECR
- AWS HealthOmics private workflow pipeline for automating the deployment of private workflows
- Event-driven architecture for real-time notifications on workflow status using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the solution, such as streamlining workflow deployment, ensuring security through vulnerability scanning, and enabling version control for workflows and containers
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