Custom genome annotation and metabolic modelling service provider Genome Designs, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with SciDM Group, a bioinformatics tools developer. Genome Designs will be using SciDM Group’s database engine, transcriptomics data processing pipeline and high throughput sequence comparison technology. The tools will be used to augment Genome Designs’ existing genome annotation pipelines and to boost custom software development projects for clients.
SciDM Group’s flagship product, a database management system, is projected as a zero-maintenance object-relational database engine optimised for dealing with extremely large volumes of data. On typical bioinformatics tasks like sequence assembly and clustering, SciDM Data Manager is said to operate thousands of times faster than conventional database engines, including popular commercial brands.
Other tools by SciDM Group similarly allow considerable performance optimisation and subsequent gain in speed: QSimScan (Quick SIMilarity SCANner) performs 5 to 100 times faster than standard NCBI BLAST depending on search parameters, and EST pipeline efficiently converts raw transcriptomics data into normalised gene expression profiles.
