It’s a huge pleasure to announce that BaseSpace, Illumina’s genomics cloud computing and storage platform, just became commercially available and one of the first apps was launched by Omixon. The commercial release includes a fully supported BaseSpace Apps store for quick and easy access to Illumina and third-party bioinformatics applications.

 

The first is a HLA typing application from Omixon Biocomputing (“HLA Typing”).  From Omixon’s app description: The Omixon app performs state of the art HLA typing with accuracy exceeding that of Sanger based typing and is able to do typing based on targeted data, whole exome or whole genome data.  It works with all known HLA alleles, supports 4, 6 or 8 digit typing, and the resolution depends only on the availability of reference and sequencing data.  Additionally, the app is exceptionally fast and easy to use – typing is done within minutes for targeted data, and in 1-2 hours for whole genome data, and the app requires no configuration.