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In his keynote address this week at Oracle CloudWorld 2022, company co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison described an Oracle more open to partnering with IS...

Oracle founder wants to help build the next generation of medical information systems.

Using VariantSpark, researchers were able to identify new variants a week before they could be flagged by health professionals.

/PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) today announced fiscal 2022 Q4 results. Total quarterly revenues were up 5% year-over-year in USD and up 10% in...

/PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) today announced fiscal 2022 Q4 results. Total quarterly revenues were up 5% year-over-year in USD and up 10% in...

The fast spread of the highly infectious Delta variant underscores the need for faster identification of COVID-19 mutations. Uniting governments and medical communities in this challenge, the University of Oxford and Oracle's Global Pathogen Analysis System (GPAS) is now being used by organizations on nearly every continent.

Courtesy of DHSC UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has today announced the launch of the Genome UK 2021-2022 implementation plan. Following the Genome UK policy paper published in September 2020, the plan outlines 27 priority actions for the next year that will help the UK to advance its ambition to become “the world’s most advanced genomic healthcare ecosystem”. WHY IT MATTERS The plan outlines 27 commitments to further genomics in the UK, with 5 key goals: A partnership between Genomic...

/PRNewswire/ -- The emergence of more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus is threatening to slow the global recovery and potentially thwart current...

Press Release – Oracle OXFORD, England and SYDNEY, Australia May 17, 2021 The emergence of more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus is threatening to slow the global recovery and potentially thwart current vaccine immunity. To help governments and medical … OXFORD, England and SYDNEY, Australia – May 17, 2021 – The emergence of more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus is threatening to slow the global recovery and potentially thwart current vaccine immunity. To help gover...

Now, Oxford and Oracle have created a Global Pathogen Analysis System combining Oxfords Scalable Pathogen Pipeline Platform (SP3) with cloud computing infrastructure. First used for tuberculosis, SP3 has been repurposed to unify, standardise, analyse, and compare sequence data of Sars-CoV-2, yielding annotated genomic sequences and identifying new variants and those of concern. SP3s processing capability has been enhanced with extensive new development work from Oracle. The SP3 system will now ...