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Aarhus, Denmark (OBBeC) - CLC bio has announced that it is becoming an Illumina Connect partner. Illumina Connect is a bioinformatics software partnership program established by Illumina  to advance data integration and analysis.

 

The company has also revealed the release of its CLC Genomics Workbench 2.0.

“CLC Genomics Workbench 2.0 provides scientists using Illumina’s Genome Analyzer with advanced downstream analysis,” says Jordan Stockton, Marketing Manager for Computational Biology at Illumina.

Stockton added that the new version of CLC Genomics Workbench offers alignment and assembly functionality that previously required larger investments in computer hardware.

“With its intuitive graphical interface, this application provides a simple desktop solution to biologists who might otherwise require the assistance of a dedicated bioinformatics professional,” he said.

As per the announcement, as an Illumina Connect partner, CLC bio has access to information in the ongoing development of Next Generation Sequencing tools, ensuring that CLC bio’s solutions will be able to fully support Illumina’s tools, including new releases.

CLC Genomics Workbench 2.0 will include several prominent new features, among these:

A new and fast algorithm for the assembly of short reads;
Lowering of the memory requirements that makes it feasible to perform reference assembly against all human chromosomes on a standard computer;
Easy masking of genomic regions such as repeat or coding regions to lower the genomic complexity and facilitate the fast mapping of CHiP-seq data or exon captured data;
Easy combination of data across platforms and experimental protocols so that e.g. single read and paired ends data are easily combined into one analysis.

CLC Genomics Workbench is a comprehensive analysis package which can analyze and visualize data from all major NGS platforms, such as Illumina’s Genome Analyzer, SOLiD by Applied Biosystems, 454 GS flx by Roche, and HeliScope by Helicos. CLC Genomics Workbench is platform independent, running on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux - including 64bit versions.