Illumina Connected Analytics bioinformatics software

Illumina is setting out to transform genomic data bottlenecks into catalysts with the launch of the Illumina Connected Analytics (ICA) integrated bioinformatics solution. The software provides a comprehensive, private, cloud-based data platform that empowers customers to manage, analyse and explore large volumes of multi-omic data in a secure, scalable and flexible environment.

Accessible through a web portal or through a rich set of APIs, the product is designed to reduce the extra work and possible human error associated with combining multiple datasets, through a direct sequencer-to-platform transfer of data onto the private Illumina cloud. With security and compliance at the core, the data is able to be seen, read, automatically processed, analysed and shared securely. Optimised for high-throughput, the platform also supports the complex storage, aggregation and querying of multi-omic sequencing and array data from around the world.

Designed for the unprecedented scale in the next decade of sequencing, the software provides users with the ability to manage the vast amount of genomic data being generated on the company’s installed base of more than 17,000 sequencing systems today and into the future. Coupled with the data science, machine learning and tertiary analysis tools that will be provided on the platform, the product should enable users to explore their data, discover insights and unlock the power of the genome.