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Agentic antimicrobial resistance surveillance with AWS HealthOmics and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Antimicrobial resistance, estimated to cause 1.27 million direct deaths in 2019, requires surveillance that normally demands bioinformatics skills to turn raw reads into answers. It ingests public SRA data via a Step Functions workflow and Fargate task, then runs a HealthOmics Nextflow pipeline that trims reads, assembles them, and detects resistance genes with AMRFinderPlus using a baked-in database. Results are normalized into the hAMRonization schema and merged idempotently into Iceberg tables on S3 Tables, so reprocessing an isolate updates rows rather than duplicating them. A Strands agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore answers plain-language questions by generating Athena queries, with Guardrails keeping responses grounded. The solution is defined entirely in AWS CDK, deploys with a single command, and avoids manual bioinformatics steps, remaining inexpensive when idle.

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1 post about Genomics. Every summary links to the original.

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AWS
Agentic antimicrobial resistance surveillance with AWS HealthOmics and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Antimicrobial resistance, estimated to cause 1.27 million direct deaths in 2019, requires surveillance that normally demands bioinformatics skills to turn raw reads into answers. It ingests public SRA data via a Step Functions workflow and Fargate task, then runs a HealthOmics Nextflow pipeline that trims reads, assembles them, and detects resistance genes with AMRFinderPlus using a baked-in database. Results are normalized into the hAMRonization schema and merged idempotently into Iceberg tables on S3 Tables, so reprocessing an isolate updates rows rather than duplicating them. A Strands agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore answers plain-language questions by generating Athena queries, with Guardrails keeping responses grounded. The solution is defined entirely in AWS CDK, deploys with a single command, and avoids manual bioinformatics steps, remaining inexpensive when idle.

The best engineering reads, once a week.