DNAnexus, Inc., the provider of the Precision Health Data Cloud, and Discovery Life Sciences (Discovery), the Biospecimen and Biomarker Specialists, announced a collaboration to help streamline Discovery’s next-generation sequencing data analysis. Discovery operates one of the world’s largest commercial genome centers that brings together advanced technologies and in-house experts to collaboratively plan data strategies that deliver high-quality results rapidly for biopharmaceutical clients’ projects of any scale. As part of the agreement, Discovery will use the DNAnexus cloud and analysis tools to optimize analysis pipeline performance, mitigate risk, and accelerate project turnaround times.
Discovery offers biopharmaceutical clients customizable and scalable research and clinical trial services to advance their development of new diagnostics and therapies for cancer, autoimmune and neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and other rare and complex conditions. The purpose-built DNAnexus Precision Health Data Cloud provides Discovery with a flexible compute, storage, and collaboration environment to access and analyze multimodal data. Sample data is automatically uploaded, pipeline performance is optimized, and results are delivered immediately. The administrative controls and data provenance tracking ensure auditability and reproducibility.
“Our collaboration with DNAnexus is another example of our commitment to partnering with industry-leading technology providers,” said Nripesh Prasad, PhD, Vice President of Scientific & Technical Development. “The DNAnexus Precision Health Data Cloud provides a scalable platform and significantly expands our menu of analysis tools, allowing us to quickly deliver results to our customers so that they can make critical data-driven research and development decisions.”
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Today, DNAnexus has more than 40,000 registered users across 48 countries. The company actively manages and supports more than 80 petabytes of complex clinical genomic, proteomic, and other multi-omic datasets on behalf of a growing network of collaborators. Its comprehensive cloud platform meets the most rigorous industry standards for data quality, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
“Discovery Life Sciences is reshaping the laboratory services market with its leading biospecimen inventory and global procurement network integrated with expert proteomics, genomics, molecular pathology, and flow cytometry services,” said John Ellithorpe, PhD, President at DNAnexus. “This collaboration is another validation of the power of our Precision Health Data Cloud to harness the full potential of large-scale multimodal data and unlock insights that improve patient care.”
Discovery Life Sciences is the company of Biospecimen and Biomarker Specialists, combining the world’s largest commercial biospecimen inventory and procurement network with preeminent multi-omic biomarker service laboratories, including genomic, tissue biomarker, proteomic, and cell-based services to accelerate new therapies supported by biomarker and companion diagnostic programs for cancer, infectious disease, and other rare and complex conditions.
SOURCE: Businesswire