Case Study: Major Medical-Scientific Research Center achieves sub-minute analysis of 30 billion-row genomic datasets with SQream

Major Medical-Scientific Research Center - Customer Case Study

Major Medical-Scientific Research Center, a university‑affiliated tertiary referral hospital and national medical center in the Middle East that collaborates with bio‑tech and pharmaceutical industries, faced slow, rigid file‑based genomic workflows that required running each chromosome‑position query separately and months to years to aggregate and compare results. The Center engaged SQream for a modern big‑data analytics approach to load and analyze massive genomic datasets more efficiently.

SQream replaced the manual file‑based process with automated database querying of large genomic files (BAM/VCF/fasta/fastq), allowing the Center to upload 50 BAM files (about 30 billion rows) and run queries across all samples in under one minute. The SQream solution accelerated nucleotide distribution, coverage and SNP/InDel analyses, dramatically reduced research time (improvements reported in the hundreds of percent), cut resource costs, and let scientists focus on research rather than IT.