AARHUS, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Danish startup company BlueSEQ publicly unveiled their global Sequencing Exchange, a service that matches sequencing service providers with researchers and organizations looking for sequencing capacity for their projects.
Since late 2010, BlueSEQ has been developing their global Sequencing Exchange where sequencing capacity can be bought and sold. Key to the exchange was the development of a free Project Design web service, which allows researchers to easily design detailed sequencing projects by answering multiple choice and interdependency questions. After going through the step-by-step guide on BlueSEQ's Project Design web service and completing a project design, it is easy for researchers to submit their projects to BlueSEQ's global Sequencing Exchange, allowing sequencing service providers worldwide to bid on the project.
CEO of BlueSEQ, Michael Heltzen, states, "There are a lot of sequencing service providers with excess sequencing capacity, but they often lack the sales capacity to reach new customers. Also, there's a huge increase in the number of researchers wanting to utilize next generation sequencing, but who have no sequencing instruments of their own. Our Sequencing Exchange will facilitate an outlet for the sequencing service providers to easily sell their extra capacity, and at the same time our Project Design tool will always ensure uniform and error-free project designs, easy communication, as well as optimal and fair sequencing agreements between the involved parties."
"Our Project Design software ensures a standardized and ideal way to design a sequencing project, taking everything into consideration, from the type of biological sample to be sequenced, which sequencing platform’s application is ideal, including suggesting the best protocol – all the way down to recommending downstream bioinformatics if needed", continues Service and Support Manager at BlueSEQ, Peter Jabbour. He adds, "In our Sequencing Knowledge Bank industry experts accumulate cutting-edge knowledge within sequencing to provide a detailed technology overview. This enables inexperienced users to make an informed decision about which sequencing approach is most optimal to achieve relevant results – critical knowledge that someone new to next generation sequencing would have quite a hard time obtaining otherwise. For the more experienced users in this field, it is possible to get direct access to the BlueSEQ Sequencing Exchange so decisions about outsourcing any sequencing need becomes easy."
The BlueSEQ Exchange has officially launched today at www.blueseq.com where researchers can try the Project Design web service and Sequencing Exchange. BlueSEQ's Project Design web service, Sequencing Knowledge Bank, and Sequencing Exchange are all free to use for researchers and organizations. The sequencing service providers pay an exchange fee when they finalize project agreements via the exchange, but can sign up at no cost.
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