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It's nice to see cloud vendors starting to come to where the action is in standardised / open source tool sets rather than trying to capture people into their o
by zmmmmm 5y ago
It's nice to see cloud vendors starting to come to where the action is in standardised / open source tool sets rather than trying to capture people into their own proprietary workflow tools which has been a big turnoff for me thus far.
I'd be curious if the underpinnings of the support they have for these tools allows more toolsets to be brought over or if the integration is highly specialised.
- geoffjentry 5y agoPeople underestimate how much compute genomics research chews up. The cloud companies (heck, even the CPU/GPU companies!) are for the most part trying to meet the researchers where they are instead of providing proprietary tools. For two reasons: a) They can sell a lot of compute time, storage space, etc b) It's an academic heavy field, and selling proprietary tools tend to be tough sledding