BC Platforms GeneVision

Mar 07, 2018

BC Platforms has launched GeneVision software-as-a-service for precision medicine. GeneVision uses the Microsoft Genomics service, which runs on Microsoft Azure, to run several of BC Platforms' existing pipeline technologies to offer scalable, easy-to-use workflows for genotyping and next-generation sequencing, data quality monitoring, and patient report generation starting from raw genome data.

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