CLC bio has introduced the CLC Genomics Workbench version 3.5 and CLC Genomics Server version 1.5.
With these releases, CLC bio is making a major push into epigenomics by supporting chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis.
Dr Roald Forsberg PhD, director of scientific solutions at CLC bio, said: 'ChIP-seq is a very important application of the next-generation sequencing technologies and we are proud to offer the first integrated solution that can easily enable researchers to go from raw data, through reference alignment and onto advanced visual and tabular output of ChIP-seq results.
'Besides taking us into epigenomics, our developers have also done a fantastic job of improving the speed and memory performance of our software, making us very confident that we can track performance as data-amounts increase.' These releases include new assembly statistics and an expansion of CLC bio's RNA-sequencing tools, including support for native colour-space data and more statistical tests.
CLC bio offers comprehensive analysis solutions for genomics, transcriptomics and epigenomics, which can analyse and visualise data from all major sequencing platforms, such as Illumina's Genome Analyzer, Solid by Applied Biosystems, 454 by Roche, and Heliscope by Helicos.
CLC Genomics Workbench is platform-independent, running on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux - including 64bit versions.
Some customers are already using CLC bio's enterprise platform, CLC Genomics Server, which won the Best of Show award at the Bio-IT World Conference 2009 in Boston.
