World of Genomics: the United Arab Emirates
24 January • Front Line Genomics, UK
"The country is also partnering with international organizations like the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) — an international collaboration of public and private sector organizations — to promote the use of genomics medicine in the UAE. The collaboration is focused on developing and sharing best practices for genomic medicine."
Genomic data storage in Azure: basic compression for mapped sequencing data
23 January • Microsoft, USA
"While BAM files are often already compressed, there is a lot of room left for further compression. In this article, we show you how to take advantage of the CRAM 3.0 compression standard from GA4GH using freely available, open-source tools to gain substantial savings in file size. CRAM has a variety of options that allow you to trade off compression size with the time it takes to do the compression; we discuss some of these below."
