ӳý of MIT and Harvard is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera, Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft to enable cloud-based access to its Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) software package. Through these collaborations the GATK Best Practices pipeline will be available to users of cloud service providers through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) mechanism, expanding access beyond traditional desktop solutions. ӳý will also work with collaborators to drive the creation of the next generation of GATK based on the Apache SparkTM computing framework.