CLC Bio has released the latest versions of the desktop application CLC Genomics Workbench, version 3.6, and the enterprise platform CLC Genomics Server, version 1.6.
With these releases, CLC Bio's platform is taking another major step towards full support for researchers preferring digital gene expression analysis compared to traditional analogue expression array analysis.
Associate Prof Kare Lehmann Nielsen at Aalborg University said: 'My laboratory specialises in digital gene expression analysis by tag-based profiling.
'Recent developments in DNA sequencing technologies have allowed us to refine this technology to a point where it is much more powerful than traditional analogue expression arrays but still price competitive.
'However, a major obstacle for the uptake of the technology has been the lack of user friendly and computationally efficient software for data handling and analysis.
'We have worked with CLC Bio through all the stages of the development of its new software and I am exited to say that we now have software that allows us to exploit the full potential of this technology,' he added.
'This new module for analysing tag-based expression data addresses a need for intuitive user interfaces that is critical, empowering many biologists to design larger and more sophisticated experiments,' said Jordan Stockton, senior marketing manager, computational biology at Illumina.
The release also includes a major expansion to the chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis capabilities of CLC Genomics Workbench, as well as a range of smaller improvements.
