Avadis NGS Becomes Strand NGS With Version 2.0 Release

BANGALORE, July 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Strand Life Sciences (Strand) announced today the release of version 2.0 of its popular next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis and visualisation platform, Avadis NGS, under a new name: Strand NGS. Strand NGS is built on the same award-winning platform as Strand and Agilent Technologies' GeneSpring®. This release combines enhancements to Avadis NGS with unique features from the GeneSpring NGS module, through the addition of a Methyl-Seq workflow, direct access to BioCyc and WikiPathways, better support for target enrichment experiments and Multi-Omic Pathway Analysis.

The merging of these unique features from GeneSpring NGS with the existing capabilities of Avadis NGS was prompted by the desire to give researchers using GeneSpring NGS access to the latest developments in NGS data analysis. Previously, GeneSpring NGS workflows were one version release behind the Avadis NGS releases.  

Avadis NGS already provides workflows for alignment, DNA-Seq, RNA-Seq, small RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq experiments, powerful statistical analysis tools, a state-of-the-art, feature-rich elastic genome browser, downstream biological interpretation capabilities and gives access to a comprehensive annotations package. With this release, existing Avadis NGS customers and new Strand NGS customers will now benefit from the additional Methyl-Seq workflow and pathway analysis enhancements.

Vamsi Veeramachaneni, Vice President at Strand Life Sciences says, "Combining the unique features of GeneSpring NGS with the latest developments in Avadis NGS made perfect business sense. It streamlines our development efforts by allowing our NGS team to focus on all things NGS and the GeneSpring team to focus on microarray data analysis. At the same time, it offers NGS researchers the best of both products in just one tool. For researchers, who wish to continue to perform multi-omic analysis combining NGS and non-NGS data, a bridge for importing the necessary information into GeneSpring is under development and due to be released later in the year."

About Strand

Strand was founded in the year 2000 by faculty from the prestigious Indian Institute of Science. Over 2,000 research laboratories worldwide are licensees of Strand's genomics software products. With a recent investment by Biomark-Capital, Strand now operates on over 25,000-square-feet of state-of-the-art next-generation sequencing laboratories in Bangalore and has established Strand Centers for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, serving over 50 hospitals across India with growing presence in the U.S. Visit our website http://www.strandls.com or follow us on Twitter @StrandLife

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