Biomatters and Active Motif are to support the latest version of TimeLogic’s Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology within Geneious Server™.The partnership, launching at this week’s Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XIX) in San Diego, will lead to faster sequence analyses for researchers with high-intensity visualization and computing needs.

The planned DeCypher™ module for Geneious Server will let researchers offload large sequence comparison jobs such as BLASTX, Smith-Waterman and HMMer from their desktop to TimeLogic DeCypher cards to process data in a fraction of the time compared to using conventional technologies. A single DeCypher card running on a small server can provide the performance equivalent to several hundred CPUs to accelerate discovery.

“Most of our customers utilize our DeCypher hardware and software in high-throughput annotation pipelines. By partnering with Biomatters, we can provide our customers with Geneious’ additional functionality. Its user interface, upstream and downstream analysis and visualization tools for Next Generation Sequencing data and Sequence Analysis in particular are of great interest to our customer base,” said Michael Murray, TimeLogic Sales and Marketing Manager at Active Motif.

Biomatters’ CEO, Candace Toner, added “The partnership with Active Motif further strengthens Geneious Server’s capabilities in scalable, high-intensity and high-throughput sequencing.

Researchers concerned with rapidly analyzing large volumes of sequence data will now have a combined hardware and software package that couples the accelerated DeCypher hardware with the range of integrated analysis tools in Geneious within a single easy-to-use interface. It will be tested, affordable, scalable and ready to go – a custom environment built for biologists, not computer scientists.”