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Pistoia Alliance partners with Eagle Genomics, Cycle Computing
March 2012
SHARING OPTIONS:
NEW YORK—Eagle Genomics and Cycle Computing announced last
month that they have jointly won a competitive bid by
the Pistoia Alliance to support
the development of a
proof-of-concept system "to meet the future needs of
pharmaceutical R&D IT."
A four-month
project, the Eagle Genomics & Cycle
Computing proof-of-concept system is one of three proposals accepted out of a
field of 11 total submissions. A
commercial release of the Sequencing Analysis
Platform is expected by mid-2012.
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.
The partnership builds on Cycle Computing's extensive
experience in securing and scaling large-data
applications in the cloud and
Eagle Genomics' track record in delivering bioinformatics applications and
workflows to eight out of 10 top global
pharmaceutical companies. According to
the companies, the project is on track to be a "robust, scalable, and highly
adaptable solution that meets the
vast majority of current Pistoia member
needs, plus many of their future ones."
"The Pistoia
Alliance's vision in recognizing the
significance of disruptive technologies and associated new business models
presents a superb showcase for the
talents of Cycle Computing and Eagle
Genomics to provide open innovation solutions to customers in the
pharmaceutical sector—and beyond," said David
Flanders, CEO of Eagle Genomics,
in a statement.
"Cycle is committed to supporting the standards
that help
spark innovation, unify silos and streamline data digestion," added Jason
Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing. "We look forward to collaborating
with the
alliance members and with the talent of Eagle Genomics in bioinformatics and
Cycle Computing in Cloud HPC workflow management, meet the
challenges facing
both researchers today and into the next generation."
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