Case Study: Myriad Genetics achieves faster clinical genomic testing with Amazon Web Services

Myriad Genetics Uses DNAnexus on AWS to Bring Precision Medicine to the Clinic

Myriad Genetics needed massive computational power and complex bioinformatics pipelines to make clinical genomic testing fast and accurate enough for patient care. Using DNAnexus on Amazon Web Services, the company set out to process large genome-sequencing datasets efficiently so it could deliver high-confidence genetic test results and support personalized healthcare decisions.

Amazon Web Services enabled Myriad Genetics to run its workflow with on-demand scalability, orchestrating pipelines with AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda while using GPU instances for AI and machine learning. The result was a major speedup: analysis that once took weeks for a single iteration now takes hours, while AWS also helped Myriad process petabytes of data, run thousands of validations, and improve testing speed, accuracy, and new biomarker discovery.

Myriad Genetics

Kevin R. Haas

Senior Vice President of Technology