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UBC-led research team finds nine new coronavirus species
A former UBC post-doctoral research fellow led an international research team in re-analyzing all public RNA sequencing data to uncover almost ten times more RNA viruses than were previously known, including several new species of coronaviruses in some unexpected places. Working with the UBC Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre, the Serratus Project was able…
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Preventing the next pandemic: How researchers analyze millions of genomic datasets with AWS
Driven by the urgent necessity to prevent another global pandemic, the team at the UBC CIC collaborated with computational virologists to create Serratus, an open-science viral discovery platform to transform the field of genomics—built on the massive computational power of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
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Amazon Is Powering The Coronavirus Diagnostics Of The Future
The lung scans of coronavirus patients coming out of Wuhan, China had the tell-tale signs of infection. Three researchers, who had previously worked together on an artificial intelligence model trained on chest x-rays, had a plan to “use AI to empower physicians across the world in helping combat this disease (Covid-19)” and the project took…
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Your Voice Is Power: Spring 2022 Winners
After several months of competition, the winners for Your Voice Is Power, Spring 2022, have been announced. Congratulations to students Bryce Watt and Miyuki Dryer and to our winning teacher, Ms. Anna Alfano.
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Your Voice Is Power: A new curriculum and competition combining computer science, Indigenous music, and social justice.
Your Voice Is Power is a new curriculum and competition for students between grades 7 to 12 that provides an opportunity to learn about coding and social justice through music. Students will be able to turn code into music by using beats provided by three Indigenous artists and EarSketch, a free online code editor. Starting…
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Leading edge tool captures data in real time to better inform care for those with Autism Spectrum Condition
Through data capture technology, the tool empowers caregivers with a way to collect, store and track personalized information in real-time about their loved ones.
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Tapestry Project – Migrating a graph WordPress plugin from a Relational Database to a Graph Database
Tapestry is an open-source online learning platform that allows collaboration in the development of interactive, associative, and multi-modal content. In this blog post, Aayush Behl writes about the process of migrating the Tapestry Tool WordPress plugin that uses the MySQL database for content storage, to a native Graph Database using AWS Neptune.
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FHIR: Burning a path to interoperability in healthcare
FHIR is an acronym for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, and is an international standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. Eric Liu explains the importance of FHIR and its technical details.
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NodeMCU and AWS IoT: A cost-effective, DIY solution for sending data to the Cloud using the Arduino IDE
Sensors can be used to monitor something of interest, such as humidity in soil, CO2 levels in the air, or ambient sound in a room. Student, Shrey Thapar, writes how to use NodeMCU and AWS IoT to create a cost-effective, DIY monitoring solution.
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An Overview of Amazon Timestream
Amazon Timestream is a powerful purpose-driven time series database that is designed for storing time-based data. This blog post will give a brief overview of how Timestream works, as well as how Timestream was utilized to store IoT sensor data for the Health Platform project.
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Connecting Different Biometric Sensors to AWS
AWS Internet of Things (IoT) provides us with an easy way to connect our devices to the cloud. Derrick Cheng details how to connect different biometric sensors to send data to AWS IoT.
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Blending old and new with RDS and AppSync
AWS AppSync plays an important part within the world of Amazon Web Services application development. In this blog post, Co-op student, Michael Woolsey, writes about how to create and deploy a GraphQL API.
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Using Amazon Chime and SIP Media Applications to improve emergency communications in rural areas
Using Amazon Chime and SIP Media Applications to improve emergency communications in rural areas By Trevor Flanigan Working on STARS was a great learning experience for me. It was the first project that I built using AWS, and I had so much support from the members of the FLASH and Chime teams, as well as…
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UBC CIC Fall 2022 Newsletter
UBC CIC NewsletterUBC Community Health and Wellbeing CIC Welcome to the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre’s (CIC) newsletter for Fall 2022. Since our last communication, the UBC CIC has continued to collaborate with community partners on some innovative challenges. Highlighted in the paragraphs below you can read about recent successes. To view…