Life Sciences Center of Excellence | Atos
Located at the Wellcome Genome Campus, home to some of the world’s foremost institutes and organizations in genomics and computational biology, the Atos Life Sciences Center of Excellence brings leading edge technologies closer to research projects with the goal of discovering fresh, innovative solutions that will have a positive impact in society.
For researchers and technologists worldwide, the center is a unique opportunity to explore the power of advanced computing technologies such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and quantum simulation.
Processing and analyzing genomics data for the early diagnosis of cancer, biological and chemical process simulation that will shorten the pathway to market of new drugs, implementing computer vision techniques to increase efficiency in healthcare are just a few examples of how this Center of Excellence will bridge the gap between our technologies and our research partners.
Life Sciences R&D professionals : Contact us for more information or to book a visit
The Life Sciences Connect Event marked the premiere of our Life Sciences Center of Excellence in Cambridge.
The event delved into the concept of virtual humans and brought together esteemed speakers from some of the world’s leading research institutions to discuss revolutionary projects in precision health and drug development.
A unique digital ecosystem to help shape a better world
for individuals and populations
Precision Health
Precision Health
Enable the implementation of a Personalized, Predictive, Preventative, Participatory medicine
Drug Development
Drug Development
From molecule to market: accelerate time to market for new drugs and treatments
Atos’ Life Sciences Center of Excellence
Our vision in Life Sciences is to bridge the gap between research and life sciences. Innovative concepts are brought to life to enable smart, secure, and sustainable health and wellbeing for all through extensive exploration, ongoing discovery, and co-creation by global health and life sciences professionals across Atos & the wider Wellcome Genome Campus ecosystem.
Watch the interview with Natalia Jimenez
Natalia Jimenez, Lead of Atos’ Life Sciences Center of Excellence at Wellcome Genome Campus, talks about how Atos will use the center to provide scientists on campus, and global genome and bio-data institutes, early access to emerging technologies to support their research, accelerate the process of bringing new drugs to market and contribute to a healthier world.
Experience the center in this virtual tour
Atos’ Life Sciences Center for Excellence at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge is an innovation hub whose ambition is to blend leading-edge technologies with scientific insights to improve people’s lives. This center is designed to complement the existing Campus facilities with technology expertise to provide a unique ecosystem for exploration, discovery and co-creation.
Atos, University College London and Arm join forces to harness the power of cloud and digital for better healthcare
Explore
With data growing exponentially and becoming more difficult to process for life sciences applications, scientists rely on high-performance computing to quickly process and analyse massive amounts of data.
So, Atos, UCL and Arm team up to explore how they can offer wider cloud computing possibilities for life sciences applications.
Discover
The Arm Neoverse-based platform, the Ampere Altra, is dedicated to cloud native workloads, meaning the simulation and the results can be achieved not only on-premises but directly on the cloud, on any type of HPC platforms and from anywhere.
As more and more laboratories are using Arm-based solutions, this project would mean that they will now be able to run applications on their systems, enabling them to easily create workflows that could detect for example mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, in order to ultimately help combat COVID-19.
Co-create
A successful Proof of Concept was co-created. Watch our video exploring this PoC >
This work has combined expertise and skills from Atos and Arm teams focusing on hardware and software optimizations, together with a scientific team from UCL dedicated to define the use cases. This collaboration has enabled the optimization of both software and hardware in this co-design effort to meet the demands of groundbreaking genomics workflows, which are already deployed in clinical settings.
Co-create
A successful Proof of Concept was co-created. Watch our video exploring this PoC below.
This work has combined expertise and skills from Atos and Arm teams focusing on hardware and software optimizations, together with a scientific team from UCL dedicated to define the use cases. This collaboration has enabled the optimization of both software and hardware in this co-design effort to meet the demands of groundbreaking genomics workflows, which are already deployed in clinical settings.
Atos, UCL and Arm join forces to harness the power of cloud and digital for better healthcare
Proof of Concept: Atos and UCL announce having successfully run the virus sequencing tool, Viridian, which is used to detect mutation of the SARS-Cov-2 strain of the coronavirus, using an Arm®-based Ampere® Altra® processor in a cloud-native environment.
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Virtual Humans
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Location
Wellcome Genome Campus
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
Saffron Walden CB10 1SA