Arima, Basepair to integrate 3D genome analysis technology
SAN DIEGO, Nov 5: Arima Genomics, Inc, the leader in 3D genomics, has announced a new partnership with Basepair to empower scientists with new options for bioinformatic analysis of 3D genomic data. The deal will make the Arima Genomics bioinformatics pipelines more accessible to bench scientists by making it available through a user-friendly interface, decreasing compute time, improving data handling and sharing, and generating easy-to-understand reports.
Through this partnership, Arima will enable their customers with an initial integration of the Arima-SV bioinformatics pipeline through a white-labeled web portal powered by the Basepair platform. This portal will allow researchers to readily upload standard sequencing files using a point and click graphical user interface (GUI) and quickly identify structural variants from their 3D genomic data. In addition to providing secure file transfer and storage, this will substantially decrease the need for customers to invest in compute and bioinformatics resources.
“This partnership brings our customers more bioinformatics options and enables those without bioinformatics support to understand their data with an easy-to-use analysis tool,” said Anthony Schmitt, PhD, SVP of Science at Arima Genomics. “Basepair will help us further democratize our 3D genomics solutions for elucidating genomic sequence and structure across a broader range of laboratories that do not always have dedicated bioinformatics capabilities.”
“Basepair offers a range of automated pipelines for next-generation sequencing analysis and looks forward to enabling Arima’s customers with faster and easier analysis of 3D genomics data,” said Amit Sinha, PhD, Founder of Basepair. “We are confident that Arima Genomics’ customers will find great value in our platform’s ability to reduce compute time and generate meaningful insights from Arima data.”
Arima Genomics, Inc is advancing life sciences research through the power of 3D genomics by providing unparalleled access to the sequence and structure of any genome. Arima Genomics offers the most advanced technologies for preserving the structural organization of the genome to drive discovery in genome biology and human health.
Basepair, Inc is the market leader in helping organizations maximize the potential of their own cloud, personnel, and genomic data resources to accelerate time to scientific insight in the biopharmaceutical, academic and genomic technologies industries. The easy-touse interface, modern architecture, and novel pay-as-you-go licensing model enables scientists in organizations of all types and sizes to quickly analyze and make sense of a multitude of genomic data types, expedite the scientific discovery that leads to novel therapeutics and life-saving medicines.
NEW YORK: Filmmaker
Haggis choked up and wiped away tears while finishing his defense Friday from the witness stand against a civil trial rape claim by a publicist.
Haggis, 69, reached for tissues after his lawyer finished questioning him a final time following cross examination that began Thursday and stretched into Friday afternoon.
After three days of testimony, the winner of Oscars for “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby” was emotional as he described himself as “a very flawed human being.”
He also said he made “Crash,” a 2004 film about Los Angeles individuals forced to confront racial issues when their vastly different lives cross one another, because he “couldn’t figure out how to be good.”
The remark by Haggis prompted his attorney, Priya Chaudhry, to ask if his self-criticism was a reference to sexually assaulting anyone.
“Oh, no!” he answered. Chaudhry’s questions came after attorney Ilann Maazel confronted Haggis with dozens of inconsistencies between his testimony from the witness stand and a video recording of a deposition in which he was asked many of the same questions.
Maazel represents Haleigh Breest, 36, who testified earlier in the trial that Haggis took her to his
Manhattan apartment for a drink after a January 2013 screening after party.
The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Breest has done.
In one instance of an inconsistency in testimony, Maazel tried to show that Haggis had admitted to over 25 affairs while he was married rather than 20 affairs.
He also elicited testimony about physical violence between Haggis and an ex-wife, with Maazel saying Haggis once hit her so hard that she had bruising.
“She had a black eye,” Haggis responded. Haggis also said he was the victim of “a very fiery person” who hit and punched him over the years. (AP)
❑ ❑ ❑ FERRIDAY, La: Family, friends and fans were to gather Saturday to bid farewell to rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis at memorial services held in his north Louisiana home town.
Lewis, known for hits such as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” died Oct 28 at his Mississippi home, south of Memphis, Tennessee. He was 87.
Lewis, who called himself “The Killer,” was the last survivor of a generation of artists that rewrote music history, a group that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
After his personal life blew up in the late 1950s following news of his marriage to his cousin, 13-year-old - possibly even 12-year-old - Myra Gale Brown, while still married to his previous wife, the piano player and rock rebel was blacklisted from radio and his earnings dropped to virtually nothing. Over the following decades, Lewis struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, legal disputes and physical illness.
In the 1960s, Lewis reinvented himself as a country performer and the music industry eventually forgave him. He had a run of top 10 country hits from 1967 to 1970, including “She Still Comes Around” and “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me).” (AP)