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BC Platforms BC Insight

Mar 28, 2019

BC Platforms has incorporated an ontology browser and data visualization dashboard to its BC Insight data management platform. The new dashboard provides users with a visual and contextual overview of massive datasets, customizable to researcher needs. The features will further complement BC Platforms' tertiary analytics tools, enabling scalable phenotypic and genetic data exploration for streamlined patient cohort identification and data organization, the company said.

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