DNAstack
Denver, CO – November 7, 2024 – Today, DNAstack announced the launch of Instruments, a new feature that streamlines genomic data analysis in the cloud through direct integration with sequencing instruments. Revealed at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting in Denver, Instruments makes it easier and faster for scientists to go from sequences to solves.
Genomics is paving the way for personalized prevention, diagnostics, prognostics, and care. While sequencing instruments have dramatically reduced the cost of data production, realizing the potential to generate discoveries that inform care still requires significant computational power and specialized knowledge.
Simplifying Genomic Data Analysis in the Cloud
Instruments streamlines genomic data analysis in the cloud without the need for costly local infrastructure or technical expertise. With Instruments, you simply connect the cloud bucket where your raw sequencing data is deposited, and the system automatically detects new samples and offers to run best-practice bioinformatics pipelines. The feature will be available in Q1 2025, and be compatible with PacBio‘s newest long-read sequencing instruments, including Revio and the new benchtop instrument, Vega. Through the PacBio Compatible Program, DNAstack and PacBio are working together to provide seamless integration and full workflow support.
“At PacBio, we are dedicated to enabling the genomics community to improve human health by making high-quality DNA sequencing more accessible and powerful,” said Aaron Wenger, Sr. Director at PacBio. “Together, PacBio’s SMRT Link Cloud and DNAstack’s Instruments accelerate this mission, streamlining instrument management and data analysis in the cloud to help our customers make discoveries faster and more efficiently.”
Instruments is elegantly designed to increase privacy, security, and sovereignty of your data while simultaneously lowering costs and complexity. The feature is integrated with DNAstack’s Workbench, a solution for running computational pipelines inside your own cloud environment on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. By localizing compute and avoiding the need to upload data to a third-party vendor, sensitive information remains under your complete control. DNAstack does not add margins on compute costs incurred in the process. Together, these features help to democratize access to cutting-edge infrastructure, making it easier for organizations all over the world to participate in genomics research without compromising on privacy, security, sovereignty, or budget.
A New Era of Global Collaboration and Discovery
Once the analysis is complete, customers have the option of integrating their results with DNAstack’s Publisher, a software solution that makes it easy to organize data and control which collaborators can ask specific questions, including training AI models, all without disclosing sensitive information.
The integrated solution is accelerating global collaboration. HiFi Solves is a worldwide community of leading research institutions collaborating to share insights on genomic variation identified through HiFi sequencing. By building a real-time, globally diverse, and complete catalog of human variation captured at unprecedented resolution, HiFi Solves is a critical step towards making discoveries that were previously not possible.
Marc Fiume, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at DNAstack, emphasized, “The future of healthcare depends on our ability to harness the collective power of data at planet scale. We’re excited about the opportunity for Instruments to break down barriers and help our community continue to push the limits of what’s possible in genomics research and precision health.”
Learn More
For more information about Instruments and DNAstack’s products, visit www.dnastack.com.