The group plans to sell its so-called "Bina Box" preloaded with software that can reduce the 300 gigabytes or so of raw data from a human genome into a few hundred megabytes of genetic information. The box will upload the compressed dataset to Bina's cloud service for storage, sharing, and further analysis. The Bina Box can do the initial heavy lifting and make the data small enough to send to the cloud, the company says.
Bina Technologies says its system does this initial processing of genomic data at speeds that are orders of magnitude faster than tools made available by the Broad Institute, the MIT-Harvard joint genome center. What takes about a week using the Broad's genome variation analysis pipeline on a high-end eight-core machine on Amazon's cloud can be done in about two hours on a Bina Box, says Bani Asadi. The company expects to publish a full description of its comparison to other analysis pipelines in the coming months.
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