The app enables to share large data sets in Illumina’s BaseSpace cloud, where they can easily be reviewed and included in Elsevier’s open access journal, Genomics Data.
The BaseSpace app serves as a gateway by opening the data stored in the cloud to the publishing environment for expert peer review and wide dissemination in the form of a professional publication.
Genomics Data Co-Editor-in-Chief John Quackenbush said, "By working together with Illumina to develop a reviewing pipeline from BaseSpace to Genomics Data, we’ve created a simple way for researchers to make genomic data accessible to publication in a journal."
Illumina Cloud Genomics senior vice president Alex Dickinson said that uploading genomic data to BaseSpace has reached critical mass.
"The innovative development of the Genomics Data App demonstrates how Elsevier is able to create new and unique opportunities for researcher collaboration," Dickinson added.