BEIJING, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Intel's Bio IT
Forum was held in Beijing, China.
In the forum, the first four members, Intel, Inspur, BGI (Beijing
Genomics Institute), and Alibaba
Cloud jointly announced the launch of GATK Chinese
Association for Precision Medicine.
Mr. Liu Jun, Inspur's General
Manager of Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing,
gave the keynote speech, "AI+HPC: Life and Medical Application
Acceleration". In recognition of Inspur's outstanding contributions
to precision medicine, Inspur won Intel's "Best Practices Award"
for their Integrated Genomic Appliance. Industry top executives and
experts such as: Yang Xu, Intel
Vice-President and President of China Division; Professor
Yu Jun, Chief Scientist of
transcriptome research in China
National Science and Technology Program; and Kate Voss, GATK representative from Broad
Institute; attended the forum.
GATK is currently the most widely used genome analysis software
and is developed by Broad Institute from the United States. The establishment of the
GATK Chinese Association will accelerate the adoption and use of
GATK tools among Chinese users for precision medicine and will be
an important segment of Intel partnership program for precision
medicine. Intel predicts that by 2020, with the merger between
biodata and the medical industry, all precision medical procedures,
from genome sequencing to medical analysis and medical regimen, can
be completed in less than 24 hours.
Inspur already has an extensive suite of innovative products for
precision medicine and application deployment experience. The
Inspur Genomics Appliance is designed to run on Inspur servers,
allowing integration of fundamental bioinformation read aligners
such as Bowtie, Bwa, with other Second-Generation and
Next-Generation sequencing tools, while also utilizing quality
control data preprocessing software like Fastqc. Inspur's Genomics
Appliance can perform data analysis for the entire genome and allow
additional re-sequencing input with Second-Generation analyzers.
Presently, Shanghai Children's Hospital has carried out many
research projects into rare child diseases using Inspur Genomic
Appliance. These projects rely on the Intel genome database
embedded in the genome appliance to create a comprehensive hardware
and software system solution for high-throughput sequencing,
sequence analysis, and database genome computations, etc.
In full support of the new artificial intelligence applications
development for the medical industry, Inspur has created a new
complete artificial intelligence solution for the medical domain.
This "complex platform" solution, is based on diverse and
innovative hardware, powerful scheduling & management
utilities, and advanced analysis software enhanced with a deep
learning framework. It has the capability to ingest data from
multiple sources at the front-end, and support smart applications
at the back-end. Inspur is committed to provide leading computing
power for artificial intelligence solutions and to promote
inclusive technologies that will benefit all.
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