Agilent launches GeneSpring 11

Agilent has made GeneSpring 11 available to the scientific instruments market ? a piece of equipment that embodies the latest developments in the firm’s desktop software for visualising and analysing microarray data.

The latest version allows researchers to open different information sources – such as microRNA, gene expression, genotyping, and copy number – in one single window.

Although other systems are available to researchers, the organisation added, the GeneSpring 11 is set apart by its ability to allow users to compare heterogeneous data and the easier performance of biological contextualisation.

Chris Grimley, Agilent’s senior director of marketing of genomics, said that new approaches in biology research have instigated a “bioinformatics bottleneck”.

He added: “GeneSpring 11 was developed with this bottleneck in mind and addresses some of the challenges of integrative analysis.”

In other Agilent news, the firm revealed last week that Fasteris has become the first European-certified service provider of its SureSelect Target Enrichment System for next-generation sequencing.