The J. Craig Venter Institute improves its metagenomics annotation pipeline with high-performance computing solution from CLC bio

BOSTON--(Business Wire)--
The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Massachusetts, has recently
incorporated CLC bio`s accelerated versions of the algorithms Hmmpfam and
Hmmsearch into their bioinformatics pipeline for functional annotation of
proteins identified in metagenomics data. The algorithms originate from Dr. Sean
Eddy's popular HMMER package but their core parts have been accelerated by CLC
bio using SIMD technology.

Director of Bioinformatics Software at JCVI, Dr. Saul Kravitz, states "Given the
ongoing acceleration in DNA sequencing capacity it is imperative for us to
ensure that the bioinformatics pipelines we use to analyze sequencing data do
not become bottlenecks to our researchers. The SIMD accelerated tools from CLC
bio have given us a significant increase in analysis capacity that we could
easily implement and take advantage of in our annotation pipeline without any
further hardware investments."

CEO of CLC bio USA, Jan Lomholdt, continues "We have worked closely with the
scientists at JCVI and have used their input to expand the functionality of our
algorithms to make them better suited for metagenomics analysis. Furthermore, it
is a great confirmation of the level of our technology, to see our command-line
tools incorporated in a professional high-throughput analysis pipeline at a
leading research institution such as JCVI."

CLC bio's command-line tool, CLC Bioinformatics Cell, uses the Single
Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) technology to parallelize and thereby
accelerate bioinformatics algorithms - like Hmmpfam, Hmmsearch, ClustalW, and
Smith-Waterman - on Intel and AMD computer processors.

To read more about CLC bio`s high-performance computing solutions, go to:
www.clcbio.com/hpc

About CLC bio

http://www.clcbio.com/index.php?id=17

CLC bio USA
Jan Lomholdt, CEO
Phone: +1 (609) 216 3248
E-mail: jlomholdt@clcbio.com

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