Basel, Switzerland
July 31, 2024
Genedata, the leading provider of enterprise software solutions for biotechnology R&D, today announced a new release of Genedata Selector®, an end-to-end platform that enables agricultural biotechnology organizations to develop innovative seeds and bring new, more sustainable crops to market faster.
Genedata Selector automates and standardizes NGS workflows while seamlessly integrating with Nextflow pipelines. Its modular architecture ensures easy access to relevant information by scientists working with complex NGS data across multiple sites. Powered by Playbooks, wizard-based step-by-step guides for data analysis and reporting, the platform enables next-generation automation, workflow standardization, and scalability across the enterprise, ensuring compliance with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles. Genedata Selector provides the “last mile” solution for agricultural biotechnology organizations to overcome data analysis and management hurdles, breaking down silos and enabling efficient data-driven decision-making.
The latest release, Genedata Selector 10, introduces a web-based workflow editor that simplifies NGS data management and enables scientists to rapidly prototype and refine their data analysis workflows throughout the R&D process. The intuitive user interface fosters collaboration among scientists with diverse scientific backgrounds and bioinformatics expertise, accelerating the accurate analysis of NGS data and efficient sharing of results. Furthermore, a new automation engine has been introduced, offering innovative ways to achieve scalability goals with HPC clusters and AWS batch.
Genedata Selector 10 comes equipped with out-of-the-box Playbooks integrated with Nextflow to streamline metadata submission, sample registration, NGS data processing, analysis, and reporting. This enables automated and intuitive visualization of genotype-phenotype relationships. As a single source of truth, Genedata Selector facilitates metadata integration and connection to existing software and databases through Playbooks and APIs. To streamline insight generation and hypothesis testing, the latest release also supports genome editing and virtual genomes, including plasmid and vector management, as well as tracking and sharing project results across teams.
“We remain committed to addressing the changing needs of agricultural biotech R&D organizations through the automation and next-generation scalability powered by Genedata Selector,” said Othmar Pfannes, Ph.D., CEO of Genedata. ”The latest release of Genedata Selector accelerates the development of innovative agricultural biotechnology products by enabling R&D organizations to harness the power of NGS to contribute to global nutritional advancements and sustainability.”
To learn how Genedata Selector 10 can transform agricultural biotechnology R&D, click here.
About Genedata
Genedata transforms data into intelligence with innovative software solutions that incorporate extensive biopharma R&D domain knowledge. Multinational biopharmaceutical organizations and cutting-edge biotechs around the globe rely on Genedata to digitalize and automate data-rich and complex R&D processes. From early discovery all the way to the clinic, Genedata solutions help maximize the ROI in R&D expenditure. Founded in 1997, Genedata is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland with additional offices in Boston, London, Munich, San Francisco, Singapore, and Tokyo.
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