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Customer Publications – May 2021

May 25, 2021

In this month’s customer publications blog, both of our flagship software platforms are shown hard at work to cover many scientific investigational topics. You will get a glimpse of how VSClinical can be used to dive deeper into a specific gene associated with breast cancer and how SVS is enabling…

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Case Study – Hannover Medical School

May 11, 2021

Dr. Auber is the team leader for the molecular genetic diagnosis of hereditary diseases at the Institute for Human Genetics at Hannover Medical School (MHH). MHH is one of the largest hospitals in northern Germany, with one of the largest outpatient clinics for individuals and families dealing with hereditary cancer…

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Golden Helix Customer Publications – April 2021

Apr 29, 2021

Researchers and clinicians alike benefit from the powerful capabilities of Golden Helix’s software. Our tools are continuously validated, and we like to showcase a few articles each month that demonstrate the multitude of use cases and advancements in science. For our April 2021 customer publication installment, I would like to…

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Using Gene Preferences in VarSeq and VSClinical

Apr 20, 2021

With the latest release of VarSeq, we have made significant updates to our handling of the interaction of variants and genes. This includes the support for non-coding transcripts, improved splice site predictions, and updates to gene and transcript annotations. We received several questions regarding how decisions are made in the…

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Webcast Recap: Exome Analysis with VS-CNV and VSClinical: Updated Strategies and Expanded Capabilities

Apr 8, 2021

Thank you to those who attended the recent webcast, “Exome Analysis with VS-CNV & VSClinical: Updated Strategies & Expanded Capabilities”. For those who could not attend but wish to watch, here is a link to the recording. In this webcast, we covered the capabilities and updates that have been incorporated…

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New Assessment Catalogs Improve Saving and Tracking Variant Interpretations

Mar 23, 2021

In this blog, we will be covering new assessment catalogs and how they work to improve saving and tracking variant interpretations. VarSeq is a variant analysis tool that effectively analyzes single nucleotide (SNVs) and copy number variants (CNVs) in both cancer and germline workflows.  Because VarSeq enables such diverse variant…

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Customizing New VSClinical Report Templates

Mar 9, 2021

Clinical testing labs produce reports as the end product of the NGS variant detection and interpretation workflow, and purpose-built clinical genomics software is essential to that process. Necessarily, the content, detail, and presentation of the report needs to be specialized to each clinical lab, and potentially each offered test. Our…

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January 2021 Publications

Jan 28, 2021

New discoveries using NGS data analysis are never-ending and are pushing precision medicine to the forefront. In the January 2021 customer publication blog, I am focusing on our VarSeq software as investigators harness its power to perform a variety of investigational study designs. From cancer to inherited rare disease research,…

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What to expect from Golden Helix in 2021

Jan 1, 2021

Happy New Year! I hope you had an opportunity to relax over the holidays with your family and friends. It’s time to start talking about our plans for the New Year, but first, please allow me to review a few highlights from 2020 that helped build a foundation for our…

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Customer Publications Featuring VarSeq December 2020

Dec 23, 2020

Reading scientific articles that our customers have recently published is one of my favorite things here at Golden Helix. It is fascinating to learn about the research and to see the various ways our software gets put to the test.Since we are rolling out our most extensive VarSeq update yet,…

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Need Coverage Statistics? VarSeq Has You Covered!

Dec 15, 2020

Curious about how coverage statistics can be used in conjunction with VarSeq? Evaluating the coverage over target regions or whole genomes is essential whether you are working with variant or CNV analysis. VarSeq has had the capability to compute sample level coverage statistics for some time now, but in the…

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Updated Annotation: BRCA Exchange

Oct 30, 2020

Our team is regularly updating and curating annotations, most recently the BRCA Exchange. Breast cancer is known to occur in approximately 10% of the female population and if there is a damaging mutation in the breast cancer gene (BRCA), that rate increases to 65%. Understanding and managing hereditary cancer risk…

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Discoveries in Human Medicine Continue Amid the Ongoing Pandemic

Sep 29, 2020

As the world is consumed by the ongoing pandemic, it is easy to forget that there are investigators all around the globe that continue to make important discoveries in human medicine. Below are a few examples that remind us there are those that persevere in their chosen fields of study…

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Controlling Your Preferred Transcripts for Clinical Interpretation

Sep 24, 2020

Did you know you can control your preferred transcript settings for clinical interpretation in VSClinical? Your lab is analyzing the DNA of a tissue sample from a patient with small cell lung cancer. The lab technician has imported the patient data into VSClinical to detect clinically relevant variants and evaluate…

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Golden Helix Named on Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 2nd Consecutive Year

Aug 12, 2020

Golden Helix has secured its reputation as a global leader in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) solutions for over two decades. Today, we are proud to announce that we have been included in the esteemed Inc. 5000 List of rapidly growing American companies. Out of the 6 million businesses in the United…

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Building Gene Panels in VarSeq: Missense Variant in TP53

Aug 6, 2020

Golden Helix software provides huge analytic gain in handling large-scale genomic data. For example, a number of VarSeq users run cohort projects of whole genome level data processing hundreds of millions of variants at a time. However, many of our users are running gene panel level data for custom panels…

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Customer Publications Throughout July 2020

Jul 30, 2020

In this month’s Customer Publications blog post, our VarSeq software is taking center stage! From whole exome sequencing to copy number variant calling, VarSeq can be used for a range of scientific investigations. Although this blog features several examples of cancer investigations in human patients, it’s interesting to see how…

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WT1 Mutations: Side-by-Side Germline and Somatic Variant Evaluation in VSClinical

Jul 28, 2020

It is common knowledge that variants can be germline or somatic depending on whether the variant was inherited or acquired after birth. A well-known example is cancer-causing mutations in the BRCA genes, wherein the mutation may or may not have been inherited. Understanding the origin of the cancer-causing mutation is…

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Using the AMP Guidelines for Rhabdoid Tumor Analysis in VSClinical

Jul 15, 2020

Introduction: Malignant Rhabdoid tumors (MRT) are among the most aggressive and lethal forms of infant and child cancer (1). These tumors are characterized by an unusual combination of mixed cellular elements similar to but not typical of teratomas and can originate at any anatomic location. When MRTs are present in…

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Golden Helix Featured in Various Publications

Jul 8, 2020

Golden Helix has been incredibly fortunate to have been featured in a variety of publications over these last six months. Topics span from the history and future of our company to several new use cases for our solutions that extend into the infectious disease space, recently coming to fruition with…

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