Our concept “Sequence Data Management” (SDM) doesn’t fit the primary/secondary/tertiary analysis informatics categories. Why? Because we've coupled the alignment step with the analysis step in one-shot. Why is that better? Biologists can to compute the data on their own and mine the data in an easy to use web application. They are able to “finish ...
I was recently interviewed for an article by Kevin Davies at Bio-IT World on our GenomeQuest 6.0Beta launch. He immediately connected our story to "NGS" and "Cloud" computing. We have deliberately not over-played the "cloud" aspect of our offering, but as the response from the article shows, there is a lot of interest in the ...
Putting GenomeQuest 6.0Beta on the web for free use is a pretty radical step. Our servers could get over-run with data and our queues can get backed up with requests. We could face denial of service attacks from deviant users lurking on the web. Our competitors (who we consider partners and collaborators) will come to ...