CLC bio and Beijing Genomics Institute challenge vast volumes of bioinformatics data

A global leader within bioinformatics and genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute, has joined forces with the world’s leading bioinformatics solution provider, CLC bio, and genomics solutions experts, SD Genomics, to resolve one of the major barriers within the life science community today: To compute and understand the massive amounts of data created in academic research institutions as well as biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Chief Executive Officer at Beijing Genomics Institute, Wang Jian, states
All indications point to very high growth rates in the global genomics and bioinformatics markets - but we also know that nearly all researchers are facing large problems working efficiently with the tools available today. They simply don't have the proper solutions to help analyze and provide an overall understanding of the massive amounts of biological data produced. This collaboration brings together a group of companies with the capability and strength to break down these barriers and provide global solutions to our customers all over the world.

The vast volume of data created by the new sequence technologies such as the massively parallel ultra-high-throughput sequencing systems presented by ABI, Helicos, 454, and Illumina (formerly known as Solexa), create an urgent need for new and innovative IT solutions for handling and interpreting such data in an efficient and value adding way. CLC bio and Beijing Genomics Institute aim to remove these barriers by collaborating in various fields, such as development of innovative and competitive plug-ins for use with CLC bio’s workbench platform, as well as implementation of some of BGI’s well-known genomics tools to be used through CLC bio’s very popular and globally widespread software solutions.

Chief Executive Officer of SD Genomics, Jens Sundbye, states
This collaboration will not only be an advantage for existing key customers like Merck and Novo Nordisk; any global customer - small, medium or large - will have new, intriguing possibilities to get better results in less time, and remove essential barriers in their workflow.