Benefits
Transparent Usage
Access compressed files in their original format. Your tools and pipelines won’t even know that anything has changed.
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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
Managing NGS Data, a Dell and PetaGene healthcare podcast
Recently our co-founder Vaughan Wittorff and Phil Sweeney from Dell Technologies sat down to discuss how the use of Next-Generation Sequencing is expanding as the costs are coming down, creating an explosion of NGS processing and resulting data. Find out how PetaGene can address the demands of that scale of data, in a two-part Dell …
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HISAT2 benchmarked with PetaGene’s compression and transparent readback tools
HISAT2 (Hierarchical Indexing for Spliced Alignment of Transcripts 2) is a graph-based read mapping tool for both DNA and RNA sequences. HISAT2 enables a fast search through its graph index, mapping reads to the entire human genome along with a large number of variants. Since it is a widely used tool, at PetaGene we have …
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PetaGene’s customers have now compressed one million genome files
For PetaGene, the one million genome era is underway We are pleased to announce the reaching of a landmark: PetaGene’s customers have now compressed over one million genome files. The dramatic drop in the cost of sequencing genomes and the numerous applications of this data to tackle critical diseases such as cancer and rare diseases …
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