BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites - Meeting the challenges in Research Data Management

The BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suite database products are designed to provide solutions to the biggest challenges in research data management and analysis.

Challenge	Solution
Research data security and data integrity are not organized in a professional manner.	The BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites provide a professional, secure data warehouse for your valuable research data, which is always up-to-date and accessible to the whole team. Permissions to data can be granted individually.
In-house databases are seldom able to scale up for massive data amounts.	The BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites are built on the scalable IBM DB2 database, utilizing the IBM DB2 database partitioning technology.
In academic research, getting a paper published as quickly as possible is essential.	Efficient data analysis workflow, provided by the BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites, makes the publishing cycle faster than before.
In a collaboration project, the data has to be shared in a secure manner.	Encrypted connection between the web-browser and the data server makes collaboration easy and secure.
Managing increasing amounts of data may become time consuming.	A professional data management system provides you and your staff the tools to streamline whole data workflow and keep up with project status, leaving more time to actual research.
The cost of database management might become an issue.	The BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites provide a cost effective way to outsource technical database maintenance, but keeping the data management in the hands of the research group.
Data file manipulation takes too much time.	The BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites convert file formats automatically.
Analysis runs can be very time consuming.	The BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites are connected to your calculation resources, enabling automated parallel analysis. The database solutions also support cloud computing technologies.
A lot of time is spent on routine data checks and analyses.	Using the The BC|GENE and BC|SNP Suites, PhD students and technicians are able to do many of the basic analyzes independently, without help from the group statisticians.
A customized system, developed for the needs of data manipulation and analysis might be very expensive.	Besides supporting a wide variaty of genotype data formats and analysis programs, BC database systems provide interfaces for R, SAS, and other scripting languages. With these tools it is straight forward to integrate locally developed algorithms with the system and to create work flows that meet the needs of your group.