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Open Access Publishing Fees Are Reimbursed on the Platform

Just a quick note about something we expect many of our customers will appreciate: Seven Bridges now covers the open access publishing fees for any research paper that results from work done on our platform. As Deniz Kural, our CEO, put it: “We want to do everything possible to accelerate …

Written by Kate Hodesdon

Docker industry leaders unite to create an open specification for containers

I was happy to learn of the Open Container Project (OCP), announced yesterday. Docker, CoreOS, AWS and other major developers of containerzation technology will work together to create a single, open specification for containers that is not dependent on any particular architecture. While Docker has served us well in the development of our SDK, I’m looking forward to …

Written by Boysha

Seven Bridges Platform wins BioIT World Best of Show

We’ve been working pretty hard over the past few years to build a tool for next generation sequence data analysis that we love. So we were very pleased to see Seven Bridges Platform win Best of Show in the Informatics Data & Tools division at BioIT World 2013. Seven Bridges …

Written by Kate Blair

Visualizing exome coverage depth

The coverage of a base pair in a sequencing run is the number of times that it was sequenced. We usually estimate coverage in an intuitive way: by comparing the total amount of measurement to the total amount of stuff to be measured. Dividing the total length of the reads …

Written by Nate

AWS Global Start-Up Challenge Semi Finals

It is official: we are in the semi-finals. With competitors ranging from business applications to gaming to big data and high-performance computing, we are proud to be among such great company!

Written by Nate

SBG Goes Ion Torrent

Update Feb 19, 2014: Our original Hermes uploader is now obsolete and has been replaced by a new plugin for Torrent Suite 4.x, Seven Bridges for Ion v2.0. To download the new plugin and updated user documentation, please visit our Ion homepage at www.sbgenomics.com/ion. Seven Bridges for Ion v2.0 will …

Written by zoran

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