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Today marks the commercial availability of BaseSpace, including the fully supported and intuitive BaseSpace App Store for quick and easy access to Illumina and third-party bioinformatics applications. Check out the detailed post in the BaseSpace blog, to learn more about three new apps from Omixon, Elsevier, and PicardSpace, as well as the new ISAAC alignment and variant calling app. We’re also debuting the Public Data tab, making it easy to locate example datasets and match them to the right […]

Roll on over to the BaseSpace blog to check out the next major update to our genomics cloud computing environment. That's right, we are officially moving out of beta, and we will be switching on e-commerce capability in the next few days with iCredits, allowing the purchase of apps in our BaseSpace store. This is an important milestone for both Illumina instrument users and BaseSpace App developers.  For users, BaseSpace is emerging from beta status to a fully supported Illumina software […]

Did you know that May is cystic fibrosis awareness month? Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common autosomal recessive genetic disorders in the Western world. Without effective screening and early detection, patients face serious health conditions that impact their quality of life and life expectancy. Sean Young is a 15-year old from San Diego who, along with his family, has become a powerful advocate for CF awareness. His mother Katrina sums up their mission: “One of the best gifts I […]

Are you exploring options for cancer data analysis? Have you checked out the Tumor/Normal Sequencing dataset in BaseSpace, Illumina’s cloud computing environment for next-generation sequencing data analysis? Are you interested but not sure how to view this data? Then check out the set of short tutorial videos we recently added to our Tumor Sequencing Data Analysis web page. There are four brief tutorials describing the following actions: 1) Logging into BaseSpace and navigating around the […]

In late 2012, chances are that seismic instruments detected small tremors in Melbourne, Australia; East Boothbay, Maine; and San Antonio, Texas from all the jumping up and down as research teams learned they had just won a MiSeq system. The inaugural MiSeq Grant program was developed to enable any researcher‒from novices to current Illumina customers anywhere in the world‒to gain access to next-generation sequencing (NGS) to further their research, and advance innovation in applications […]