On-demand webinar

Integrating Human Genetic Data to Help Drive Drug Discovery: Elastic @ Merck

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Bhasker Bokuri
Bhasker Bokuri

Software Engineer

Merck

Daniel Myung
Daniel Myung

Senior Engineer

Merck

Overview

As genome sequencing’s costs have dramatically fallen, scientists have been awash in genetic data for novel research – but the existing tools and methods for analysis were not scaling well in terms of data size and harmonization, and they are also tedious, manual, and require a significant amount of expert integration.

Daniel and Bhasker will share Merck’s journey with Elasticsearch, which has enabled them to harmonize a data ingestion pipeline and create a universal coordinate system for genetic variants as a backbone to help scientists uncover new insights on human genetics across a broad spectrum of diseases (from cancers, alzheimer’s, diabetes), and to aid in the discovery and validation of new therapies.