Open Platform for Powerful Applications
GenomeQuest serves as an open platform that allows bioinformatics teams to spend more time on science applications and less time on IT details. A complete application programming interface (API) provides full access to a full range of bioinformatics services, including:
- engine-level operations for comparisons and querying
- workflow-level processes for capturing science/business logic
- administration, sharing, and compute resources
Bioinformatics teams and researchers use the API to:
- customize and build workflows and applications
- integrate other discovery tools into GenomeQuest
- integrate or cloud-enable existing algorithms/pipelines
- access GenomeQuest reference databases
- scale services to next-generation sequencing (NGS) volumes
- securely publish workflows and applications to extended communities
- consolidate support across users, instruments, and tools
The open platform interoperates with popular RDBMS’s. Using a best-of-breed approach, GenomeQuest utilizes the RDBMS to manage relational data – including admin, metadata, and user annotations – while itself efficiently and comprehensively managing sequence data and reference annotations.
Tiered Software Platform Built on the GQ-Engine
Because the GenomeQuest platform manages the administrative and scaling issues, our bioinformatics team spends more time consulting with researchers - clearly the best use of their talents.