Broad, Verily take Terra bioinformatics platform to Microsoft Azure cloud
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The Broad Institute, Verily Life Sciences, and Microsoft on Monday announced a strategic partnership to extend the Terra bioinformatics analysis platform to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
The cloud-based Terra platform was codeveloped by the Broad and Google sibling Verily Life Sciences. By offering it on Azure, the three companies hope that they can improve collaboration among many of the 168,000 data scientists, biomedical researchers, and clinicians who use Terra. This partnership combines multimodal data, secure analytics, and scalable cloud computing to improve insight and evidence generation, allowing us to ultimately impact more patients lives, Verily COO Stephen Gillett said in a statement.
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
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