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During the COVID-19 pandemic health crisis the world is facing right now, this is a huge deal, according to Brett McMillen (pictured), director of U.S. federal at AWS.
“It’s got not only human genomic data, but all life forms or all branches of life … to include viruses,” he said. “And that’s really important here during the pandemic. It’s one of the largest and oldest … sequence genomic data sets that are out there, and yet it’s very modern. It has been designed for next-generation sequencing, so it’s growing.”
McMillen spoke with Lisa Martin, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed why the SRA data is so important and why AWS is helping the scientists at NIH during this pivotal moment in time.