Jan 11, 2021 10:58am Microsoft plans to dedicate its own software engineering resources and lend its machine learning expertise to Terra’s efforts, while also using open application interfaces and internationally recognized modular software components. (Microsoft)
Verily and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard hope to dramatically boost the reach of their open-source biomedical research platform through a new partnership with Microsoft.
The scalable Terra platform includes digital tools currently used by over 15,600 researchers, to analyze and collaborate on data gathered from nearly 2 million study participants spanning cancer genomics to infectious disease projects.
Now, Microsoft is signing on as an equal partner in Terra’s operation and development and the computing giant plans to help drive its global adoption, by pulling it through its established network of AI and cloud-computing customers that includes over 168,000 healthcare organizations.
Jan. 11, 2021 On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through the Terra platform. Terra, originally developed by Verily and the Broad Institute, is a secure, scalable, open-source platform for biomedical researchers to access data, run analysis tools and collaborate. Terra is actively used by thousands of researchers every month to analyze data from millions of participants in important scientific research projects. Biomedical data are being generated and digitized at a historic rate and are expected to reach dozens of exabytes by 2025 including data from genomics, medical imaging, biometric signals and electronic health records. Coupled with powerful research and analysis tools, these datasets can provide lifesaving insights into some of the world’s most pressing health issues. But making use of these important datasets remains difficul
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Broad Institute and Verily partner with Microsoft to accelerate next generation of Terra platform for health and life science
Multiyear partnership brings together advanced technology, industry expertise and scale to help researchers interpret an unprecedented amount of biomedical data and derive insights to advance the treatment of human diseases
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 11, 2021 – On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through the Terra platform. Terra, originally developed by Verily and the Broad Institute, is a secure, scalable, open-source platform for biomedical researchers to access data, run analysis tools and collaborate. Terra is actively used by thousands of researchers every month to analyze data from millions of participants in important scientific research projects