Becker's Healthcare January 19, 2022
Google partnered with the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to create an artificial intelligence-powered method that accelerates genome sequencing data analysis for faster disease detection.
The method, called the PEPPER-Margin-DeepVariant, analyzes data for Oxford Nanopore sequencers, one of the fastest commercial sequencing technologies available, according to a Jan. 13 company blog post.
On Jan. 12, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study led by the Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine demonstrating the method’s use in a newborn intensive care unit. The method was used to analyze genomic...