Geospiza FinchLab™ for Genetic Analysis

FinchLab is an out-of-the-box lab management system with intelligent workflows that help you get started immediately and the flexibility to adapt to your specific needs without custom programming.

Specialized Workflow Management and Data Analysis
Next generation genetic analysis presents Core Labs and Researchers with a breakthrough opportunity for discovery – and the challenge of unprecedented data volume. This overwhelming data volume can distract resources and focus from important research.

A laboratory workflow management system for genetic analysis can simplify core lab management, increase throughput, reduce errors and support real-time data distribution to researchers. Until now, Core Labs and Researchers have been forced to patch a complete solution together from disparate components or to develop a custom application – requiring a significant resource investment and delaying access to new technologies.

From Data to Information
To help you get the information you need, we turn over 5 million short reads into meaningful information such as gene lists, read depth, WIG files, SNPs and BED files. The FinchLab analysis pipeline integrates state of the art alignment algorithms like MAQ, and converts files into more understandable formats.

These more understandable formats mean that instead of searching through 5 million reads, you can find out which are the most expressed genes in your RNA library. Then, you can intuitively link out to annotation or drill down to fill out more specific data for a particular gene. For example, with ChIP-Seq a summary of graphical chromosome overviews allows you to visually identify regions of interest.

FinchLab not only takes the raw data and transforms it into processed application data, but also summarizes the data to highlight the most interesting and important information for you.

Designed by Biologists
FinchLab provides a workflow management system designed by biologists specifically for genetic analysis. FinchLab improves productivity, data management, data access and analysis of next generation genetic sequencing to accelerate research and discovery. FinchLab is a complete product designed for service labs to support all forms of DNA sequencing (Sanger, SOLiD, Illumina, 454), as well as workflow management for fragment analysis with Applied Biosystems Genetic Analyzers.

In addition, FinchLab provides data management and analysis capabilities for any kind of genetic analysis, and data and instrument support is extensible to other genetic analysis technologies and applications.