Powerful Engine

Genevestigator is targeted to the simultaneous analysis of thousands of genome-wide expression profiles. Despite this large amount of data, we believe the screening should be fast and it should not just show canned results on pre-defined data sets but allow the user to select experiments of interest from the large pool of curated data sets. This poses significant challenges. To address them we have built the Genevestigator engine.

• Client-Server Architecture - To achieve optimal responsiveness of the analysis tool, our architecture carefully distributes tasks between the Genevestigator engine on the server and the powerful Java client.
  
  
• Parallelization - The core of the Genevestigator engine is a unique parallelization scheme that distributes each query to multiple servers. The parallelized software provides sub-second query results in cases where even reading the input data from the disk would take several minutes. An example is a biomarker search that can identify the genes that are most specifically up-regulated in a set of chosen conditions while not responding to all other conditions.
  
  
• Scaling - The parallel nature of the Genevestigator engine enables us to scale with the envisioned increase in data content both from microarrays and next generation sequencing, as well as with the growing user base. Already today, hundreds of analysis sessions with many large-scale queries are performed each day.