Madison, Wisconsin
July 1, 2009
DNASTAR, Inc. introduced today its latest version of
Next-Gen sequence assembly software for desktop computers.
NGen2.0 is the company’s third upgrade of NGS software in the
past 18 months, reflecting the rapidly changing needs of the
market. NGen 2.0 features an expanded capacity to permit users
to work with larger reference-guided or de novo assemblies. The
easy-to-use interface permits researchers to quickly and easily
set up projects and either use default parameters or customize
the assembly parameters for their unique project. NGen can also
be used to assemble data for RNA-Seq projects run in the DNASTAR
ArrayStar software platform.
Bob Steinhauser, DNASTAR’s Director of Marketing stated, “NGen
provides scientists with the ability to assemble large project
files quickly. These files can be analyzed and visualized
through Lasergene. With the increasing interest in being able to
work with larger data sets, project setup ease and completion
time are important to researchers who do not have immediate
access to bioinformatics groups for support. NGen’s design,
capacity and tie-in with Lasergene for analysis and
visualization satisfy user needs for all of these components.
Larger user groups will find the new networking capability
offered in NGen to be especially valuable and easy to setup.
Finally, on a desktop computer costing less than $5,000, we’ve
successfully assembled Next-Gen projects with normal depths of
coverage using a reference genome up to 250 MB in length, which
is the size of the largest human chromosome. This increased
capacity will support a wide range of projects in the Next-Gen
community.”
DNASTAR has created software for more than 25 years to increase
researchers’ productivity. Currently, the Company produces
Lasergene, a sequence analysis software suite; NGen for the
assembly of large quantities of data generated from Next
Generation Sequencing technologies, ArrayStar, a gene expression
analysis and visualization software package which permits
RNA-Seq and DGE applications to be performed and GenVision for
genomic visualization. |
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