CLC bio Releases Version 2.0 of Award-Winning Enterprise Platform

CLC bio announces the CLC Genomics Server 2.0, an enterprise platform for Next Generation Sequencing data analysis. It has been expanded with a wide range of new and improved features assisting organizations of any size in building and managing a modern, flexible, and efficient enterprise platform for analyzing and handling high-throughput sequencing data.

Among other additions, these are the prominent new features:

• Parallelization of job executions on multiple computers at the same time, through multiple "job nodes"
• Easy integration of third party command-line tools and algorithms, providing end-users easy and user-friendly access through a graphical user interface
• Support for file sharing and data management on both file-systems as well as databases, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL
• Additional high-throughput sequencing analyses, including Digital Gene Expression (RNA-sequencing), complementing the de novo assembly, reference assembly, SNP & DIP detection, as well as ChIP-seq analysis

CLC bio's three-tier enterprise platform comprises user-friendly desktop applications, server software for doing the heavy calculations on existing or new powerful central computers, and centralized data sharing and data management. Furthermore, CLC Genomics Server includes an Application Programming Interface (API) for integration and custom plug-in development making it the most flexible bioinformatics server solution on the market.

CLC bio's enterprise platform for Next Generation Sequencing data analysis, CLC Genomics Server, has been awarded the “Best of Show” prize at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2009 - an award judged by a team of Bio-IT World magazine editors and leading industry experts.