QIAGEN N.V. Launches Empowered Genome Community, Invites Citizen Scientists and Researchers to Pool and Collaboratively Interpret Human Genomes

REDWOOD CITY, California, and HILDEN, Germany, October 15, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- -- Empowered Genome Community unites people who have had their genomes sequenced to help make their data scientifically useful through sharing and collaborative interpretation

• Effort links citizen scientists with full-time researchers to pool and interpret genomes via QIAGEN's secure online interpretation platform, Ingenuity® Variant Analysis(TM)

• Highlighting promise of the approach, QIAGEN releases an open, collaborative analysis of myopia in Harvard Personal Genome Project data, and invites citizen scientists to help refine and jointly publish findings

Hey, check out all the research scientist jobs. Post your resume today!