Run clinical variant analysis, ACMG/AMP interpretation, and report sign-out on one platform. Automate your NGS workflows from raw VCF to a signed clinical report backed by an ISO 13485-certified quality management system.
One toolset covers the steps that usually require three or four. Your scientists annotate, filter, classify, and report inside VarSeq, with the same audit trail running through each step.
Golden Helix develops VarSeq under an ISO 13485-certified quality management system. VarSeq Dx is CE marked under IVDR 2017/746 for in vitro diagnostic use. Installation verification and tiered proficiency certification are part of customer onboarding, supporting each lab's own validation and quality processes.
Each VarSeq install pulls monthly-curated data from ClinVar, gnomAD, and premium sources including Golden Helix CancerKB™, OMIM, LOVD, and Genomenon.
Run VSPipeline to take a sample from sequencer output to clinical report without an analyst clicking through the pipeline by hand.
Load VCF or FASTQ data. VarSeq enriches each variant with the current month's clinical and population annotations on import.
Apply real-time filter chains with nested logic and phenotype-driven prioritization. The clinically relevant variants surface in seconds, not minutes.
Work through ACMG/AMP criteria in VSClinical with evidence gathered and scored alongside each rule, so the final classification carries its rationale with it.
Generate a structured clinical report and archive every assessment in VSWarehouse, so the next sample with the same variant inherits your prior call.
Explore the core capabilities of the VarSeq Suite, from specialized variant analysis to end-to-end automation.
Real-time filter chains with nested logic, curated annotations, and phenotype-driven prioritization.
Guided ACMG/AMP classification with automated criteria recommendation.
Full-spectrum CNV, breakend, fusion, and tandem repeat detection and reporting.
PGx star allele calling and diplotype determination with CPIC guidelines.
Scale your laboratory with high-throughput VSPipeline automation.
Enterprise data management and longitudinal tracking of variant assessments.
Automate the interpretation of somatic variants using AMP guidelines, integrating therapy matching and clinical trial search.
Support for trio and extended family analysis with de novo, compound het, and phenotype-based variant prioritization.
Partner-paired workflows for reproductive risk analysis, supporting autosomal and X-linked recessive disorder screening.
Over 400 institutions run Golden Helix software, from small diagnostic labs to national genome centers.
VarSeq for clinical variant analysis: assays, workflows, annotations, and deployment.
Yes. VarSeq handles WES and WGS sample sizes with high-performance filtering and phenotype-driven prioritization, surfacing clinically relevant variants without bogging down on millions of rows.
Golden Helix provides monthly curated updates to all major annotation sources, including ClinVar, gnomAD, and OMIM, on both GRCh37 and GRCh38, ensuring your analysis is based on the most current data.
Yes. VarSeq runs dedicated workflows and guided clinical interpretation for germline (ACMG) and somatic (AMP) variants on the same platform, sharing one filter library and one report template across both.
Yes. VarSeq supports short-read data from Illumina and long-read data from PacBio and Oxford Nanopore. Through our partnership with PacBio, VarSeq delivers optimized workflows for long-read variant calling, structural variant detection, and tandem repeat analysis, helping resolve complex genomic regions that short-read platforms miss.
VarSeq handles a wide range of study designs. Analyze single proband samples, parent-child trios, and extended pedigrees for rare disease diagnosis. Run carrier screening with partner-paired workflows. Perform cohort studies with population-level filtering and shared variant assessment. Whether you are running a targeted gene panel, clinical exome, or whole genome, VarSeq adapts to your sample configuration.
Yes. VarSeq provides equal support for both GRCh37 and GRCh38, including updated reference sequences, gene models, and the full suite of clinical annotations on each assembly. Where possible, annotations are natively aligned to each genome build; when native alignments are not available, we use liftover so every clinical annotation is accessible on both assemblies. VarSeq also allows you to liftover your variants on import, so you can annotate older GRCh37 data against the latest GRCh38 resources.
Yes. VarSeq runs on your local infrastructure or private cloud, providing complete data sovereignty. Air-gapped environments are also supported for maximum security.
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