This document discusses how cloud computing and big data analytics can optimize life sciences research. It outlines some key benefits of cloud computing like scalability, flexibility, and pay-as-you-go models. The document also discusses challenges in healthcare big data like volume, velocity, variety and veracity of data. It provides examples of data analysis pipelines and tools for tasks like quality control, variant calling, clustering and enrichment analysis that can help researchers. Finally, it argues that cloud computing has the potential to address challenges and transform biology and healthcare research.
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