Today, CLC bio announced the release of CLC bio's premier desktop software package for working with genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics: Version 4.5 of CLC Genomics Workbench - an update which gives molecular biologists access to analyze high-througput sequencing datasets with powerful bioinformatics algorithms through a user-friendly graphical user-interface.
"Our RNA-seq analysis now supports the use of paired-end data for RNA-seq. A combination of single reads and paired reads can also be used, and expression values can now be stratified into transcript level expression values, both for single and paired reads, allowing users to compare two different samples across transcripts." elaborates Solution Delivery Manager at CLC bio, Søren Mønsted, and continues, "Another important new feature is our batching functionality of all our high-throughput sequencing tools, enabling researchers to perform the same analysis on several elements in one batch, which is an easy way to analyze multiple datasets in one go and thereby save time for setting up and running the same type of analysis multiple times."
Other important additions to CLC Genomics Workbench 4.5 include redesigned multiplexing and BLAST tools, as well as a new algorithm for mapping SOLiD reads, among other features.
Launched in 2008, CLC Genomics Workbench is the first integrated analysis solution for comprenhensive genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics analyses. CLC Genomics Workbench can analyze and visualize large datasets from all major high-throughput sequencing platforms: Illumina, SOLiD, and 454 by Roche, in addition to traditional Sanger sequence data. Like all desktop applications from CLC bio, CLC Genomics Workbench is platform independent, running on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux - including 64bit versions.
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