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Qlucore Omics Explorer V3.6

Dec 12, 2019

Qlucore has released version 3.6 of its Qlucore Omics Explorer (QOE) data analysis software. QOE provides fast, simple, visual analysis of measured data from a wide range of sources and instruments. It ships in a base module with an option to add a module with extensive functionality for next-generation sequencing data analysis. The program integrates well with workflows and through the Python-based template functionality it is possible to control the program through a script and to configure well-defined analysis steps. V3.6 has several new features including the direct import of single-cell data and improved survival calculations using hazard ratios; the addition of one more classifier method (gradient-boosted decision trees) in the machine learning module; and an expanded suite of standard templates, including templates for direct import of single-cell data from 10x Genomics and one for direct download from The Cancer Genome Atlas.

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