CCMB selects AWS as cloud partner

New Delhi: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to drive genomics research projects.

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), which operates under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), focuses on the study of genetic material, among other areas. “Understanding the genomic variation in India’s population is a government priority towards developing precision healthcare and diagnostics, and delivering them at affordable costs. Finding greater computing efficiency at scale is well addressed by cloud computing,” AWS India Leader - Public Sector (Government, Education and Healthcare) - Pankaj Gupta said.