QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI), the bioinformatics arm of QIAGEN, announces the CLC Genomics Workbench Premium, which can help remove the data-analysis bottleneck of next-generation sequencing (NGS) by incorporating light speed technology, ideally suited to NGS areas such as neonatal screening for hereditary diseases or large population-genomics studies. The software accelerator converts raw sequencing data in FASTQ files from any paired-end short read sequencing platform into interpretable lists of genetic variants in the VCF format, analyzing an entire human genome at 34x coverage on an ordinary computer in just 25 minutes and a 50x whole exome in 90 seconds within standard cloud environments.

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