Ó³»´«Ã½ 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. Ó³»´«Ã½ will also work with collaborators to drive the creation of the next generation of GATK based on the Apache SparkTM computing framework.