Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., a provider of Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT) sequencing products, has entered into a partnership with Cycle Computing to optimize the PacBio RS SMRT Analysis software for the cloud.
Officials with Pacific Biosciences of California said that the cloud-based version of the SMRT Analysis software suite is designed to provide dynamic, high performance computing that scales to meet the data analysis needs for SMRT sequencing and supports a workflow that includes sample preparation, sequencing and completed data analysis in less than one day.
Company officials said that beta version of the solution is expected to be available with the next major PacBio RS upgrade, currently scheduled for the end of 2011.
"Analysis of long, single molecule, real-time sequencing reads from unamplified samples without the need to maintain complex and expensive hardware and software will offer customers more flexibility to realize the potential of the PacBio RS," said Edwin Hauw, director of software product management for Pacific Biosciences, in a statement.
Hauw said that by leveraging Cycle Computing's expertise in building scalable, high performance cloud computing applications the company’s goal is to provide the best balance of performance and convenience for customers.
Cycle Computing, a bootstrapped, profitable software company, delivers proven, secure and flexible high performance computing (HPC) and data solutions since 2005. Cycle helps clients maximize existing infrastructure and speed computations on desktops, servers, and on-demand in the cloud.
Cycle Computing recently provisioned a 30,000-core cluster in the cloud, the first of its kind in the industry and the company's second publicly announced massive cluster run this year. This milestone for scientific computing follows Cycle's earlier scaling of a 10,000 core cluster in April. Since 2005, Cycle has helped its clients maximize the world's compute resources through its reliable, secure and elastic HPC solutions, both internally and in the cloud.
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