BioTailor: A cloud bioinformatics platform aided with AI suggestive programs
Overview
BioTailor is dedicated to creating a future where anyone can engage in bioinformatics analysis swiftly and effortlessly, regardless of their computer’s computation power or bioinformatics expertise. By leveraging cloud computing resources, user-friendly pipelines and the database developed at the D24H, we make sophisticated bioinformatics tasks accessible to all, fostering global collaboration without borders.
Commercialisation opportunities
Subscription services, partnership and workshop
Problem addressed
Bioinformatics faces challenges from massive growth of genomic data, requiring scalable solutions like cloud computing. Efficient resource allocation, access to advanced GPUs for AI, and navigating numerous analysis tools complicate workflows. BioTailor helps scientists overcome these obstacles by curating pipeline database and simplifying resource management to enhance efficiency and reduce costs, enabling faster and more effective genomic analysis.
Innovation
- The D24H has developed AI algorithms specifically designed for real-time tracing and detection of infectious pathogens within large genomic datasets, enhancing genomic research capabilities and expanding the potential for groundbreaking discoveries in the field.
- With automatic deployment of cloud computing servers from leading industry providers, the flexibility is critical for facilitating multinational collaborations and data sharing, enabling researchers worldwide to leverage our dynamic cloud resource architecture to enhance research efficiency significantly.
- An AI-assisted tool recommendation system, akin to the state-of-the-art copilot chatbots, designed to guide users in selecting the most efficient and most appropriate tools for various analyses.
Key impact
- Offers a scalable and flexible environment for genetic analysis, supporting the execution of complex bioinformatics pipelines using resources from multiple cloud providers. On this platform, users can create and modify bioinformatics pipelines tailored to their specific research needs, thereby enhancing productivity and efficiency.
- Curated bioinformatics pipelines and database available for users to choose based on different analysis scenarios.
- An AI-driven guidance system which simplifies the decision-making process for users, ensuring optimal results with minimal effort.
- An-easy-to-use smart dashboard designed for pipeline development and deployment.
Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D²4H)
The Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D²4H) aims to gather and curate massive, unique data resources and develop deep, frontier analytics to protect global public health while improving individual healthcare through precision medicine. The D²4H brings together a multi-disciplinary team of the world’s leading scientists to apply Artificial Intelligence and big data in ways that will transform our approaches to understanding and treating disease.
Spearheaded by The University of Hong Kong with support from world-renowned academic institutions nationally and internationally, the D²4H is keen to work with health authorities such as the World Health Organization and China Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Through harnessing collaboration across multiple disciplines and sectors, the D²4H advances the frontiers of healthcare technology in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and beyond to produce ‘moonshots’ that will have tremendous healthcare benefits for global health.
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