The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit, precompetitive alliance of life-science companies, vendors, publishers and academic groups says it has "a vision for the future of managing and sharing precompetitive pharmaceutical genomics R&D data," The alliance has created detailed requirements under the banner of Sequence Services Phase 2. The system, with a number of add-ons for analyzing this data through the use of standard bioinformatics tools and custom workflows, must ensure that each customer using it is completely confident that their data will remain private and confidential.