Making Sense of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
Last week, Illumina announced that it is launching Broad Institute’s IGV Genome Browser as its first App for BaseSpace. Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is a great visualization tool for next-generation sequencing data at nucleotide level resolution, in a variety of formats. IGV is developed by Broad Institute and is freely available under a GNU LGPL [...]
Illumina announces MiSeq grant and three grant winners will receive a free MiSeq, Illumina’s benchtop high-throughput sequencer. All Illumina wants is a 500-word proposal on how you would use Illumina MiSeq to discover, innovate, or help your research. Illumina’s MiSeq grant application is open to all researchers across the world. No prior experience with next-generation sequencing [...]
Illumina announced pricing scheme for BaseSpace, Illumina’s cloud based data storage and analysis platform for Next Gen Sequence data. Every BaseSpace user will get 1 terabyte (TB) of free storage for Illumina data. Additional storage of data can be purchased using two plan/storage increments: one terabyte and ten terabytes. one Terabyte for a month costs [...]
