Christopher Crosbie, a Healthcare and Life Science Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services wrote a post on the Amazon Web Services blog about our ADAM project for genomic processing.   The post, entitled “Will Spark Power the Data Behind Precision Medicine?” gives a nice overview of ADAM and how to run it on the AWS EMR platform.

The article wraps up by saying: “Spark on Amazon EMR provides unique advantages over traditional genomic processing and may become a necessary tool as genomics moves into the scale of population-based studies required for precision medicine.”   We couldn’t agree more.