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Developments in bioinformatics are putting pressure on those tasked with data analysis and interpretation, writes


Sophia Ktori 16 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WORLD


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ext generation sequencing (NGS), high content screening, metabolomics, and other emerging biological disciplines


are allowing scientists to drill down into the mechanisms of disease and drug activity at the level of individual biomolecules, genes and interacting pathways. Along with that capability comes the generation of huge and disparate datasets that need to be integrated, analysed and interpreted in context. ‘Customers in the bioinformatics


space are asking us for help managing their complex and changing scientific data, especially for NGS and biologics


discovery,’ comments John Stalker, product manager, Platform for Science, at Core Informatics. ‘Huge volumes of NGS data need to be stored and analysed, and bioinformaticians use a variety of vendors and tools to generate and analyse their data. Our goal is to enable them to do the analysis they want to do, in the way that they want to do it.’ Core’s approach has been to develop a


multi-tenant cloud-hosting infrastructure that allows users to generate their own, configurable environment for tracking and integrating these different processes. Platform for Science (PFS) provides a


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