DNAnexus and the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (BCM-HGSC) Announce Ultra Large-Scale Collaboration to Advance the Clinical Analysis of Genomic Data

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) at Baylor College of Medicine and DNAnexus today announced a broad collaboration focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in the large-scale clinical analysis of genomic data. Through this collaboration, the HGSC has adopted the DNAnexus enterprise cloud platform to power its Mercury pipeline, a semi-automated and modular set of tools for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data in both research and clinical contexts. The collaborators also worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to process data from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium using the Mercury pipeline, generating 430TB of results and making them available to hundreds of researchers participating in this global project.

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