If you’re interested in visualizing and analyzing genomic data, then you’ll want to check out a new way to run Genome Workbench: in the cloud! Genome Workbench is a desktop application (both Windows and Mac) that lets you analyze genomic data in one place. You can run tools such as BLAST and create views such as multiple sequence alignments, and much more. You can run Genome Workbench on a cloud environment from your local desktop computer. This manual will show you how.
There are many advantages to using Genome Workbench in the cloud:
- You can easily compare your data to the complete GenBank and RefSeq datasets without needing to download them
- You can run BLAST searches against standard databases or any custom databases you’ve assembled in the cloud
- All of the data (e.g. FASTA, BAM, GFF files) remain in the cloud with no need for local copies
- You won’t pay egress fees for downloading data
Give it a try and let us know how it goes!