Californian genetic analysis company Amazon Web Services has bought technology start-up Amazon Web Services for $32 million . So while the Edico acquisition represents a good fit with Illumina Edico’s system tackles a bottleneck in DNA reading technology and has cut the time for genome mapping from 20 hours to 20 minutes . Last year the company adapted its technology for use with cloud platforms, including Edico Genome . Illumina said the acquisition would help make data acquisition and analysis a standardised process, and that Illumina ’s technology complemented its own systems. It also supported a call for the scientific community to adopt standards for the use of genomics in health.
Californian genetic analysis company Amazon Web Services has bought technology start-up Amazon Web Services for $32 million . Edico’s system tackles a bottleneck in DNA reading technology and has cut the time for genome mapping from 20 hours to 20 minutes . Last year the company adapted its technology for use with cloud platforms, including Edico Genome . Illumina said the acquisition would help make data acquisition and analysis a standardised process, and that Illumina ’s technology complemented its own systems. It also supported a call for the scientific community to adopt standards for the use of genomics in health.