September 2016 | CSE Developer Blog

Benchmarking Technologies for Storing and Querying Genomic Data

Ami TurgmanSeptember 29, 2016Sep 29, 201609/29/16

Background Recently we worked with a startup that provides a big data platform for storing and managing genomic data. Using a dashboard, medical professionals can receive notifications about common mutations in their patients’ DNA, search for specific mutations, and perform family analysis queries. Since ~99.5% of the human genome is ...

Using an Extensible Web-Based Command Line Interface to Administrate a Backend Platform

Ami TurgmanSeptember 20, 2016Sep 20, 201609/20/16

Recently my team developed a backend platform for processing medical documents in the Genomics space. Details about this project can be found here. This platform consists of a number of services that together make a pipeline in which data flows from one service to the next. The pipeline uses queues to send tasks for processing, so that one ...

Deploying a DBaaS to Azure with Graph Story and Ansible

Josh HolmesSeptember 13, 2016Sep 13, 201609/13/16

Who is Graph Story? Graph Story is a startup based out of Memphis, Tennessee that offers fully-managed Neo4j databases as a service. Neo4j is one of the most popular graph database implementations, providing rich features to support machine learning and intelligence through relationships. Rather than users hosting and maintaining a Neo4j ...

Training a Machine Learning Classifier for Relation Extraction from Medical Literature

Nadav BarSeptember 13, 2016Sep 13, 201609/13/16

We recently engaged with Miroculus, a startup working in the medical space. Miroculus develops affordable and quick blood tests for the early detection of diseases by detecting levels of microRNAs in a patient’s blood. The Problem As part of their solution, Miroculus attempts to identify if certain miRNAs are related to a certain gene ...

Servicing FAQ-Style Content Through a Conversational Interface

Toby BradshawSeptember 12, 2016Sep 12, 201609/12/16

Background Recent advances in Machine Learning coupled with the growing ubiquity of instant messaging apps have revived interest in the decades-old concept of chatbots, now more commonly known as ‘bots’. Microsoft has taken a leading position in this field with the release of the Bot Framework SDK and LUIS language understanding ...

Code-Free APIs with Azure Search

Tracey TrewinSeptember 10, 2016Sep 10, 201609/10/16

Azure Search is a search-as-a-service offering from Azure that can be used to easily wrap static or slowly changing datasets, such as SQL databases, with a scalable API supporting OData lookups and robust search functionality. Below I introduce a new open source tool which helps integrate Azure Search into your devops process. Code-Free ...

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