Station X

Qiagen said this week that it plans to launch the CLC Cancer Research Workbench, a customizable bioinformatics solution that will offer flexible, cancer-specific analysis workflows in April 2014.

Customers of GenePool, Station X's newly launched software for genomic and clinical data management and analysis, said this week that factors such as its ease of use, ready access to cloud infrastructure, and its ability to analyze both large and small numbers of samples make it

Station X has launched GenePool, a cloud-based software application to manage, analyze, and communicate genomic and clinical information. Users can analyze sequence information from both DNA and RNA to identify biomarkers.

Station X has launched GenePool, a cloud-based software application to manage, analyze, and communicate genomic and clinical information. Users can analyze sequence information from both DNA and RNA to identify biomarkers.

Increasing activity from sequencing vendors and other new players, as well as a flurry of activity around clinical data analysis software and the commercialization of a number of open source tools were the key trends in the bioinformatics community in 2012.

After wrapping up a recent fundraising round involving an unnamed investor, informatics startup Station X is preparing to launch its first product for the clinical research market — a tool focused on biomarker discovery from genomic data, BioInform learned this week.

By Uduak Grace Thomas
Genomic Health is beefing up its informatics portfolio as part of its efforts to use next-generation sequencing for biomarker discovery and diagnostic testing.