Agilent Technologies adds new integrated biology capabilities to bioinformatics suite

Agilent Technologies today released GeneSpring 12.0, a major expansion of its popular bioinformatics software designed to enable a new level of medical science breakthroughs. With the new release, GeneSpring users can now analyze next-generation sequencing data and conduct joint analysis at the pathway level across multiple "omics" platforms in a familiar software environment. These new capabilities expand on existing GeneSpring modules for transcriptomic, genetic, metabolomic and proteomic data analysis. The new release includes an NGS module for next-generation sequencing. The NGS module was designed and tested for use with Agilent's SureSelect target-enrichment platform as well as un-targeted next-gen sequencing experiments. An integral part of the NGS module is the QC manager, which provides tools for graphical target enrichment, base quality, mapping and alignment QC.