We have had our upcoming de novo assembly algorithm in internal Alpha for some time now, and have just released an updated technical note with benchmarks from the Alpha 2 version, which is the version we’re currently running.
Impressive benchmarks
These new benchmarks are quite impressive: De novo assembly of a data set with 38 fold coverage of the human genome, completed in only 7 hours on a single computer, while also improving the overall quality!
Click to download the PDF-file with benchmarks on the Alpha 2 version of our upcoming de novo assembly algorithm
Interested in trying this de novo assembler yourself?
Hopefully we can have the beta version out for public testing before Christmas - stay tuned! If you’re interested in more information, you can sign up here and get an invitation, once it’s released: Click to sign up for a beta trial of our de novo assembler
Abstract
With Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, High Throughput Sequencing has become accessible to a much larger group of researchers. NGS technologies therefore have the potential to transform biomedical research and eventually also health care areas such as molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine.
However, High Throughput Analysis has not become commonly accessible yet, and therefore data analyses represents a serious bottleneck, which prevents scientists from reaching the full potential of the NGS technologies.
In these sessions, I will give you our perspective on the bioinformatics challenges arising from NGS data and how we are addressing these to make High Throughput Analysis accessible for all researchers. The session will include a presentation of the CLC Genomics Workbench software.
June 5th • Singapore
Thursday at 3:30 PM
Aspiration Theatre
Biopolis
June 6th • Kuala Lumpur
Friday at 3 PM
University of Malaya
Institute of Biological Sciences
Free access for all. Sign up by sending an e-mail with your name and organization to ngs@clcbio.com
Here you can watch a 6-minute preview of the most ambitious platform for Next Generation Sequencing analyses: CLC Genomics Workbench. This software package is the only to support all current NGS formats: 454, Solexa, SOLiD - and later on Helicos, among more.
This video preview shows a few of the features - more are already implemented in the workbench - and you can learn a bit about the intuitive graphical user-interface to access this extremely powerful Next Generation Sequencing analysis package.
To watch the movie at YouTube.com, click here.
If you’re interested in learning more about CLC Genomics Workbench - or would like to sign up for a trial version - you can click here!
Today we officially open the virtual door to our new blog on NGS. The authors behind these pages is primarily CLC bio’s scientists, and thus we strive to keep a high scientific level all the way round. We aim to keep the blog updated fairly often - and if you don’t want to miss a beat, I suggest you click here to sign up for our RSS feed.
Everyone are most welcome to write relevant comments to the posts. Enjoy 
