Last week, GenomeQuest held our “The Next Generation of Sequence Analysis” seminar for Harvard-based Researchers. It was sponsored by Bob Steen, manager of the Harvard Biopolymers Facility.
According to Bob, it was the 2nd largest crowd ever for his seminars and the largest ever for a software topic — an indicator that reseachers are indeed planning for NGS and eager for answers to their “information bottleneck”.
Over 80 principal investigators, Post Docs, and MDs attended from Harvard hospitals including Beth Israel Deaconess, Children’s Hospital, Dana Farber, Brigham and Womens, Mass General, as well as Harvard Medical School.
Based on the questions, most researchers were interested in the RNA-Seq and Variant Detection applications. Richard Resnick stressed GQ’s cloud-based storage/analysis of results, the GQ Browser for whole-genome analysis, as well as cloud-sharing of results.
Harvard bioinformaticians and computational biologists are welcome to a follow-up seminar or training on the GQ API.
