The guiding principle of the development of the GenomeQuest 6.0Beta platform is to support the complete “sequence cycle” – from uploading raw reads, to mapping them to an arbitrary reference, to generating knowledge through a variety of workflows, and then ultimately through to the assembly of those reads for use as the reference for tomorrow’s experiment. In this way, investments in sequencing are not one-off, but rather continually augment each other over long periods of research.
We’re getting very close to releasing a new point version of GenomeQuest 6.0Beta that includes, among other things, support for the Velvet assembly tool. This is one more step in supporting the sequence cycle – a powerful, easy to use, widely adopted assembly package. In addition to the release of the Velvet tool inside of GenomeQuest 6.0Beta, we’re going to be releasing the full “how-to” of its implementation inside of GenomeQuest 6.0Beta for those bioinformaticists and developers that want to get a close-up look at how anyone can integrate virtually any tool into the GenomeQuest 6.0Beta platform.
Richard J. Resnick
VP Software and Services