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News Release from: CLC bio | Subject: Seqnet
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 21 January 2008
Next generation sequencing network
established
CLC bio and several prominent Danish research institutions have established Seqnet - a national network for developing software for the analysis of data from next generation sequencing technologies
The software platform will integrate groundbreaking bioinformatics algorithms with a user-friendly and graphical user interface The network is funded by the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, with a total of US$3million and will initially operate for three years, starting January 2008
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 30 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Since DNA sequencing is becoming omnipresent in research we believe that the answer to this challenge is a unified next generation sequencing platform.
"In this network, we will make such a platform come together by combining our unique capacities for producing graphical user interfaces, algorithms and high performance computing solutions with the expertise of Denmark's foremost researchers in the field".
Head of the Danish Seqnet project and associate professor at the department of life sciences at Aalborg University, Kare Lehmann Nielsen, continues: "We're fortunate to be able to establish this national network with one of the leading bioinformatics companies in the world, CLC bio.
"It brings a very high level of understanding and experience in working with cutting edge technology and advanced algorithm design.
"With its multifaceted workbench structure, CLC bio will provide a stabile and user-friendly platform for this project.
"During the project, the tools developed will be tested and refined through a wide variety of different research projects, ranging from tag-based expression analysis and metagenome analysis of sludge, to cancer cell characteriSation, ensuring the solution will receive first-class input from all the finest experts in Denmark".
A significant amount of new or optimised bioinformatics algorithms will be developed in this project.
They will all be bundled into a comprehensive bioinformatics package based on CLC bio's present platform, the workbench, facilitating analysis of new sequencing technology data by research groups in companies and large corporations, as well as public and private research institutions.
The founding partners of the Danish Seqnet, of which four sites already have invested more than £4million in next generation sequencing equipment in 2007, are the department of life sciences at Aalborg University, faculty of agricultural sciences at Aarhus University, department of biology at University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Aalborg University Hospital, and CLC bio. Request a free brochure from CLC bio ...
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