I’m thrilled about our launch of GenomeQuest 6.0Beta because I believe it’ll really have an impact on researchers’ abilities to make sense of their NGS data. We’ve overlayed a web-based toolkit of NGS analyses on top of our world-class NGS-scale sequence data management engine, and have included all of the world’s reference data. In just a few clicks, your reads are mapped, classified, and summarized against whatever genome you’re researching. Our variant calling capability allows for such powerful global mining that you can ask questions like, “show me all of the SNPs and indels that truncate a protein and are previously undiscovered.” To be able to do that in a few clicks in your web browser is pretty cool. And while our RNA-Seq workflow of course computes RPKMs, it also gets you into discovery by letting you examine splice variants all the way down to the level of individual reads. The ability to change the scale up and down so drastically gives researchers huge insights.
My favorite aspect of GenomeQuest 6.0Beta is its openness. Bioinformaticians can plug in their own algorithms and make their own workflows, while at the same time leveraging all of the power of the centrally managed reference data. Researchers can share their results at the click of a button. And the whole thing is available and open to try by anyone who wants to use it.
We’ll keep making GenomeQuest better and better with your help, and I look forward to hearing your feedback on the product.
Richard Resnick
VP Software and Professional Services
