Applied Biosystems and Geospiza, Inc. have partnered to launch the life-science industry’s first jointly offered genomic analysis cloud-computing solution, which is an approach to computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtual resources are provided as a service over the Internet. This offering leverages the web-scale infrastructure from Amazon Web Services.

Many scientists using next-generation sequencing platforms face significant challenges with the vast amounts of sequencing data generated, requiring many hours and computing resources to manage, distribute and analyze the data. This solution allows scientists to easily transfer their data to the data center, manage and store their data, and access bioinformatic software tools to analyze it. Amazon Web Services and Geospiza will enable scientists using the SOLiD System, Applied Biosystems’ platform for next-generation genomic analysis, to access the most current analysis technologies in real time. Scientists using the SOLiD System will be able to access the Applied Biosystems mapping tool for sequencing reads that is offered with Geospiza’s genetic analysis software, GeneSifter.

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