Recently, I had the “pleasure” of working through the qualification process for a genomics data lake at a pharma company. In this data lake, they store various -omics datasets (RNA-seq, exome, etc.) as well as other data related to their research and clinical trials. Technically, though, any system that is…

Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lecanemab for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s Disease. This drug, marketed as Leqembi by Biogen and EISAI, is approved for individuals with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease. As with many antibody-based treatments for all kinds of diseases, the…

Last week, I had to honor of attending and presenting at the Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute’s “Meeting in the Millyard” in Manchester, NH. I presented on June 6th, which was the National Science Foundation / ARMI Workshop day. This was the “National Conference on the Future of Biofabrication” where experts…

Earlier today, OneLake was just announced at Microsoft Build. This platform, built on Azure Storage and existing data lake protocols, sets out to help enterprises organize their data in data lakes. …

Obviously ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and has certainly taken over my LinkedIn feed. While OpenAI’s GPT models are certainly state-of-the-art, many open-source large language models (LLMs) have been popping up as competition. Azure OpenAI is a deployable version of the OpenAI API on the cloud that includes…

A few days ago, my friend and former colleague, Sam Edelstein, posted a really cool project where he used ChatGPT to recommend books from his GoodReads list. I’ve been working on revisions to a new SARS-CoV-2 paper (which you can read here). In doing so, finding papers to cite that…

In this quick post, I asked ChatGPT a few things about the cloud and how it may be useful for genomics. Spoiler alert: ChatGPT seems to have read my content 😎. Its responses sound very much like the answers I would give. Query 1: What are the top three reasons the cloud should be used for genomics research? 1. Scalability: The cloud allows for the storage…

Last week, I and 15 other Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) partook in an event at Microsoft surrounding their new Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare (MC4H) platform. Since it was announced earlier this year, there have been tons of advancements in Microsoft’s healthcare offerings that cover technical needs from providers to payers…

Recently, a Shiny-based research app that I run, called StrainHub.io, went down. It was previously hosted on a free service, but it was time for me to bite the bullet and host it myself on a more performant compute environment in Microsoft Azure. I realized that while it wasn’t that…