CLC Bio has announced it will be heading a project to develop a software suite, so that up to one thousand genomes can be used as knowledge input in gene regulation analysis.
The pan-European comparative genomics project, Cogangs (Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing), also involves Biobase (Germany), Decode Genetics (Iceland), Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics (Hungary), Biorainbow (Russia) and Oxford University (UK).
'This project enables us to do large-scale comparative genomics analyses,' said Gisli Masson, the director of bioinformatics at Decode Genetics.
'We will apply both the initial prototype and the final software package for the analysis of regions that have been identified to have strong disease associations in the human genome.
'The integration of this software suite with our Explain data analysis solution and our Transfac database will strengthen our position in next-generation sequencing,' he added.
The Cogangs project will develop a software suite, where a large number of genomes can be used as knowledge input in gene regulation analysis, like analysis of which factors influence gene regulation, how much impact they have on gene regulation, how they can be identified in the genome of interest, how different gene regulation factors influence each other and how they work in combination.
Such software will be able to provide completely new knowledge, and will thus have tremendous value to life science researchers globally.
