What kind of data come off the Analysis Engine?
Stoops: In the interests of supporting standard formats, we’ve adopted the Short-Read Format as the HeliScope output. This format was developed by a workgroup started by people in the research and genome center community, including Sanger, as well as vendors of the short-read platforms, and is gaining adoption. It’s been adopted as the standard for the 1000 genomes project. NCBI has adopted it as the submission format for the short read archive. It all goes back to our belief in openness, and our open-source strategy, and open format where nothing is hidden from the user. Adopting the SRF standard fits very nicely with our strategy for openness. Do you think potential customers have under-appreciated or are ill-prepared for the data deluge associated with next-gen platforms? Stoops: [We’ve] heard cautionary notes from people who have experience with next-generation sequencers, effectively saying, “If you’re not ready to accept the full challenge associated with analyzing the data, mayb
