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Wolters Kluwer Health says,

"We needed to break the cycle of more data, more requirements, more money and the answer was Netezza."

Next-Generation Sequencing Analytics

Netezza handles data storage and analysis for post-alignment next-gen sequencing data. Many industries, business areas and segments talk about a 'deluge of data'. Nowhere is this truer than the acceleration of data produced in new methods of sequencing DNA. Many terabytes or petabytes are being generated from next-gen DNA sequencing. From microarrays to next-generation sequencing, to 3rd generation sequencing, ChIP-Seq and nanopores, useful repository of sequences will soon need information management and scalable solutions beyond cloud or commodity hardware. Further, the need, development, and maturity for NGS data analysis is growing apace. As a result, current and past methods of manually interrogating the data post-alignment don't work due to the size, scale, and speed required. New paradigms of storage, computing power, and data management become the focus rather than just the sequencing and alignment.

Netezza's data-intensive supercomputer is ideal for NGS data analysis and storage:

From a data analysis perspective:

• Best-in-class platform for Galaxy and other open-source tools
• Huge reduction in latency for de novo and other high latency alignment
• Parallel database modality for phenotyping, haplotyping and metadata-intensive queries
• Speeding up SAS and other statistical packages by orders of magnitude
• Support for branded enterprise data sequencing front-end tools

From a storage perspective:

• Very low cost-per-terabyte
• Prevention of silent corruption of disks
• Specialized appliances designed for storage, access, and performance
• All from a public company with a solid track record and hundreds of customers
• World class support and use of commodity hardware for further ease