Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore, India, has released version 3.0 of its flagship, next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis and visualization platform, Strand NGS. Over a period of 15 years, Strand has honed and leveraged its proprietary artificial intelligence platform, named Ramanujan, which it applies in NGS data analysis, clinical variant interpretation, and reporting.
The key highlight of the release is a DNA-Seq workflow that is 1.5 to 2 times faster than the BWA-GATK best practices workflow including increased accuracy for variant calling with precision/recall rates as high as 99/98% on the entire call set and 97/92% on InDels, and powerful visualizations for each step that are not present in GATK. Other improvements include: a ‘one-shot pipeline execution option’ to help researchers and core facilities complete reiterative NGS analyses in just a few clicks; improved RNA-Seq workflow processing speed with observed speedups of up to 110% in RNA transcriptome alignment, and full support for HGVS notation to describe variants in standard international nomenclature of variant reporting and information exchange in DNA diagnostics. For more information, visit Strand Life Sciences.
