Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
We’ve been involved in a very exciting research collaboration project in Belgium for the past two years, thanks to significant funding from the Flemish regional government. We teamed up with imec (one of the world’s leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies), the academic hospital UZ Leuven, the university KU Leuven, Ghent University, Agilent, and BlueBee to develop a unique hybrid cloud platform that can tackle this genome analytics challenge.
The goal was to build a platform that can make whole genome sequencing and analysis be both cost- and time-effective so hospitals can use it in day to day patient care. This was not simply a research project, but a specific real-world implementation request for the treatment of patients at UZ Leuven.
The Goal: to Analyze 48 Genomes, in Less Than 48 Hours
Read more on Western Digital blog post here: blog.westerndigital.com/whole-genome-sequencing-in-patient-care
We’ve been involved in a very exciting research collaboration project in Belgium for the past two years, thanks to significant funding from the Flemish regional government. We teamed up with imec (one of the world’s leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies), the academic hospital UZ Leuven, the university KU Leuven, Ghent University, Agilent, and BlueBee to develop a unique hybrid cloud platform that can tackle this genome analytics challenge.
The goal was to build a platform that can make whole genome sequencing and analysis be both cost- and time-effective so hospitals can use it in day to day patient care. This was not simply a research project, but a specific real-world implementation request for the treatment of patients at UZ Leuven.
The Goal: to Analyze 48 Genomes, in Less Than 48 Hours
Read more on Western Digital blog post here: blog.westerndigital.com/whole-genome-sequencing-in-patient-care
