Benefits
Transparent Usage
Access compressed files in their original format. Your tools and pipelines won’t even know that anything has changed.
Want to know how much you can save?
Award Winning Innovation
PetaGene has won “Best of Show” at Bio-IT World, the premier conference for IT in the Life Sciences, three times. In 2016, PetaSuite won against 46 competitors, in the category for optimising speed and storage. In 2018, PetaSuite Cloud Edition (CE) won in the infrastructure and hardware category and in 2019 PetaGene’s latest security innovation: PetaSuite Protect won the ‘Nailed It’ award against 30 competing products.
“The judges chose a new product that could give you millions of dollars worth of storage savings right now, a product that several of our judges wanted to go buy immediately after lunch.”
Allison Proffitt
Testimonials
"By using PetaSuite compression software for our data we have achieved our primary aim of dramatically increasing our storage capacity. This means that we do not need to spend precious resources on replacing or adding to it. The PetaGene team were responsive to our needs, including managing the demands of using IGV to efficiently access the compressed data via Apache server without decompressing the data first.”
“We were looking for a reliable NGS compression solution that we could quickly deploy at scale on our large cluster and would allow us to reduce our tier 1 storage needs. We were under time pressure to decide on a solution for funding reasons and PetaGene was willing to go the extra mile to help us. We decided to go with PetaGene as they offer transparent on-the-fly decompression and we estimated that there would be an overall cost saving compared to other solutions.”
“Handling the enormous amount of data we receive from genome sequencing is a huge challenge in our group as we analyse data from more than 10,000 human genomes... PetaGene’s solutions allow us to easily store, use and visualise the sequencing data at a fraction of the cost.”
Customers and Collaborators
How Does it Work?
- PetaGene supplies multi-threaded Linux software (PetaSuite) for you to use to losslessly compress your BAM and FASTQ.gz files for savings of between 60% and 90%, whether on-premises on in the cloud.
- You never need to decompress the files – our software comes with a user-mode shim (PetaLink) that does efficient random-access on-the-fly decompression out of memory so that the files appear with their original filenames in their original format. Performance is improved by doing this, due to I/O savings.
- The Cloud Edition of PetaSuite even allows you to transparently migrate your pipelines to the cloud and/or access remote data as if it is local without downloading it first.
Blog
ASHG 2019 in Houston
We will be among the exhibitors (on booth #609) at the ASHG Annual Meeting 2019 in Houston, TX from 15th to 19th October. Each year the event attracts around 6,500 scientific attendees, plus 250 exhibiting companies. It’s the world’s largest gathering of human genetics professionals. The meeting provides a forum for the presentation and discussion …
New genomic data storage and analysis guide
One year ago, Frontline Genomics published Genomic Data 101, its guide to the technology and hardware landscape for genomic data storage and analysis. It proved a valuable primer for anyone looking to find out about compression and general management of genomic data. The data infrastructure to support genomic research, including compression, has evolved since the …
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HIMSS Europe Conference 2019
PetaGene will be attending the HIMSS European Conference in Helsinki, Finland from 11th to 13th June. It’s a great opportunity to meet and tell us about the challenges you face when storing and working with NGS genomic data. Come along to learn more about how our dramatic compression ratios, combined with the right storage architecture, …