This week we announced new agreements with two premier healthcare institutions: Geisinger Health Systems (GHS) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). We also announced, with Complete Genomics, our participation in its Genomics Discovery Partners program.

Each of these relationships opens exciting new opportunities. NGS technology generates terabytes of data requiring enormous storage capacities and supercomputing processing power to extract meaningful information. Academic research centers, university hospitals, and commercial organizations risk being overwhelmed by this rapidly growing amount of data. As researchers and clinicians seek to integrate these datasets into their work, industry leaders are increasingly investing to meet this data management analysis challenge.

We are excited to enable these industry leaders to innovate solutions with us on our cloud-based platform. GHS is integrating its genomic data assets with clinical applications, including parent-child trio studies for disease characterization and prevention. UCSF is uploading, managing, and analyzing sequencing data for large-scale genome sequencing research applications. Complete Genomics is offering our data management and visualization services to customers of their human genome sequencing service.

These relationships exemplify ways we help organizations to capitalize on opportunities created by the growing ubiquity of low-cost genomics data. Together we are applying these experiences to create new services and capabilities that support their customers, researchers, and clinicians.

Check back often for updates on these and other collaborations in the works.