Simply creating a more powerful environment on which to manage and analyze next-generation sequence data is not sufficient for today or tomorrow's demands. In this paper, we discuss 6 requirements to create an environment that extends the biologist's current desktop, allows for interactive discovery, and enables flexible intergration for bioinformaticists.
This white paper explores the challenges faced by researchers seeking to perform "database-vs-database" sequence searches while relying on traditional bioinformatics processes. By virtualizing access to primary bioinformatics resources-compute power, database management, network management, algorithms — researchers and IP professionals are then freed to focus on sequence search and analysis without the wait.
BLAST is effective in some sequence searches, but not all. This informative white paper explains why BLAST falls short on short sequence searches, and presents alternatives to BLAST that overcome these limitations and deliver accurate, definitive short sequence results in minutes.
This compelling paper identifies 10 surprisingly common — yet often unrecognized — sequence search mistakes. It also gives valuable insight on how to prevent them in order to improve and accelerate your research initiatives.

Is the Answer simply more power?
Extending the Biologist's Desktop into a Powerful, Interactive Platform for Next-Generation Sequence Analysis