CosmosID-HUB: Microbiome

CosmosID has added a microbiome functional analysis module to its CosmosID-HUB taxonomic profiling software platform. As such, the company can offer customers both microbiome sequencing services out of its Germantown, Maryland laboratory as well as analysis of the genomic potential of microbial communities. The new module features direct links from the platform to the MetaCyc and GO terms databases; data import via direct upload; and Illumina BaseSpace and automated SRA import from NCBI with analysis speeds up to 19X faster than open-source tools. In addition, users can find an organism or gene/pathway of interest with search functions, exportable charts, and visualizations, CosmosID said.