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Heading to Phoenix, AZ for AMP 2022

Nov 1, 2022

The Golden Helix team is headed off to Phoenix, AZ for the Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting & Expo (AMP) 2022. We are enthusiastically awaiting a week of genetics discussions with new and familiar faces. If you are attending, please stop by our booth and say hello! We will…

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Customer Publications – October 2022

Oct 31, 2022

October 2022 was VarSeq’s month, and we saw incredible research and clinical application being utilized with the VarSeq suite. Whole exome sequencing and variant filtering and annotation, CNV calling for oncology research, and pathogenicity classification using the ACMG guidelines. VarSeq was able to be a front-runner this month, showing the…

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Headed to Los Angeles, CA for ASHG 2022

Oct 20, 2022

Our team is getting ready to head to Los Angeles, CA for the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (ASHG) 2022. We are looking forward to spending the week discussing genetics with new and familiar faces! If you are planning on attending, please stop by our booth and say…

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Using rsID lookup in a VarSeq Workflow

Oct 4, 2022

There are many reasons a user may wish to focus in on specific variants as part of variant annotation and filtration workflow. You may be looking for the occurrence of specific SNPs in a cohort or perhaps looking for variants known to be associated with specific forms of cancer. For…

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Customer Publications – September 2022

Sep 30, 2022

Every month we compile customer publications that reference us, and every time I am excited to see the amazing work being done around the world. From pediatric heart conditions to rare diseases, or a Thai clinical study on dilated cardiomyopathy, it is always a pleasure to see the Golden Helix…

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Streamlining Variant Analysis for Large Genetic Cohorts: Part 1

Sep 27, 2022

Large genetic cohorts require substantial effort to analyze. Genetic researchers are increasingly turning to whole exome and whole genome sequencing analyses for their clinical diagnostics and research. However, with that approach comes the challenge of making sense of these massive datasets. This is especially challenging when looking for tools that…

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Where We Are Headed – Upcoming Conferences for Golden Helix

Sep 20, 2022

There are a number of conferences coming up on our schedule in the next few weeks. It’s a great opportunity check out the latest developments at Golden Helix and see exciting technologies in action. These conferences are a wonderful opportunity to discuss new discoveries in genomics. We will be there…

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2022 Innovation Awards Winners

Aug 31, 2022

We would like to thank everyone who entered our 2022 Innovation Awards Competition. It is always a pleasure to read and learn about the various ways Golden Helix software is applied around the world as well as the amazing research that is being done. With that said, it is our…

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User Perspective For Somatic Analysis in VSClinical AMP: Webcast Q & A Follow-Up

Aug 25, 2022

Thank you to those who attended our webcast on the user perspective of our automated AMP guidelines! Furthermore, let me express our appreciation for those particularly engaged users who posed some very thoughtful questions. While we weren’t able to answer all of them live, I hope to shed some light…

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FASTQ to Report: Streamlining the Process with Golden Helix Software

Aug 3, 2022

Manually converting FASTQs to VCFs, importing these into VarSeq, and building projects from scratch is adequate when you have only a handful of cases per week. But as you start ramping up production, the key to your lab’s success quickly becomes how quickly and efficiently you can get to the…

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Headed to Vienna, Austria for ESHG 2022

Jun 9, 2022

Our team is excited to be in Vienna, Austria for the European Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (ESHG) 2022. We are looking forward to spending the week discussing genetics with new and familiar faces! If you are planning on attending, please stop by our booth and say hello! You…

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Customer Publications May 2022

May 31, 2022

As we look back on May 2022, I wanted to highlight a range of applications that our VarSeq suite is capable of and show the success of our partners. In these publications, our VarSeq suite is utilized for the analysis of whole-exome, clinical variant classification and association, and assisting in…

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Questions from Webcast: Evaluating Cloud vs On-Premises for NGS Clinical Workflows

May 23, 2022

In the era where cloud-based solutions are the default for the modern office, it may not be obvious why many laboratories and testing centers choose to host their data and analysis pipelines on-premises or on self-managed cloud services. In the recent webcast Evaluating Cloud vs On-Premises for NGS Clinical Workflows,…

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What’s Coming to VSClinical: Expanded Clinical Trial Search Results

May 17, 2022

While the interpretation of germline variants generally focuses on the pathogenicity of a variant for a specific disease, the interpretation of somatic variants is centered around each variant’s impact on clinical care. As a result, clinical trials play an important role in assessing the clinical significance of somatic biomarkers, with…

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Mining Curated Databases for Literature in VSClinical

Apr 29, 2022

Curated databases are a real time saver when compiling published evidence to support your variant evaluations and classifications. Leveraging the curated databases at your fingertips in our VSClinical variant interpretation hub is even more efficient. Not only does VSClinical provides users with automated variant classification for germline variants according to…

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Customer Success

Apr 27, 2022

For this month’s Customer Success blog, I decided to revisit some of my favorite studies that had previously been featured in years past. At the time we first highlighted the below publications, some of them were in pre-print and have since been accepted and published. What they all have in…

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Mining VarSeq Curated Databases for Literature – Raw Data Search in Variant Table or GenomeBrowse

Apr 21, 2022

An under-utilized use of VarSeq is the ability of mining raw variant data in GenomeBrowse for relevant literature. By bringing in various public and private annotation sources, GenomeBrowse allows the user to interface with raw variant data in a compressed and manageable view. This blog will show you how to…

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Customer Publications March 2022

Mar 31, 2022

We at Golden Helix thoroughly enjoy seeing our software being utilized to solve problems and assist in the diagnosis of hereditary diseases. It is gratifying to be notified of customer publications in which they are doing precisely this. While there have been numerous publications this month showcasing Golden Helix software…

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New Annotations Product Page

Mar 30, 2022

Golden Helix is always trying to add new helpful resources to aid in using Golden Helix products for NGS analysis. In today’s blog, I am very excited to introduce a new resource for Golden Helix users! A new resource that is now available is our Golden Helix Annotations product page…

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See you all at ACMG 2022!

Mar 16, 2022

Everyone at Golden Helix is excited to be traveling once again to an eventful week in Nashville, Tennessee, for ACMG 2022! If you are attending the conference, we hope you will stop by our booth and say hello to the team: Andreas Scherer, Ph.D., Darby Kammeraad, Jennifer Dankoff, and myself,…

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