Overview of Tools and Workflows in Genomics Workbench and Microbial Genome Finishing Module

CLC bio's Genomics Workbench and Server solutions enable researchers to rapidly analyze and visualize the data generated by NGS machines. CLC Genomics Workbench is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. It includes a number of features within the fields of genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics, as well as all of the tools of CLC Main Workbench.

Genomics Workbench also provides a graphical and user-friendly framework for creating, distributing, installing, and running workflows. A workflow consists of a series of tools where the output of one tool becomes the input to another tool. In this way, the user can set up a workflow to go through multiple steps of analysis. For example, the read trimming output is used for mapping to reference, the mapping file is used for variant detection, and the resulting variant track is filtered against a standard variation track.

CLC Microbial Genome Finishing Module is an add-on plugin for the Genomics Workbench that helps with finishing of small genomes, such as bacterial, fungal, and viral genomes. The module is a collection of tools to identify, visualize, and solve problems in genome assemblies. The tools can be combined into workflows, or used individually.