Cogent NGS Discovery Software
Version 1.5
Overview
Cogent NGS Discovery Software v1.5 (CogentDS) is bioinformatic software for user-friendly analysis of sequencing data generated with Takara Bio platforms. The Cogent NGS Analysis Pipeline v1.5 (CogentAP) can be used to prepare files ready for import into CogentDS.
Top Principal Components can be reduced and visualized using the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP, recommended) method or the t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) method.

Example of a UMAP analysis chart on the CogentDS web interface. The user controls to modify the chart display are shown alongside a resulting scatterplot.
Upon acceptance of the EULA and submitting the form, you will be sent an email with a key required to install CogentDS. Follow the installation instructions in the Cogent NGS Discovery Software v1.5 User Manual or Quick Start Guide. CogentDS includes the following files:
- GUI launcher
- Example mini-dataset files—can be used to test the Discovery functionality (CogentDS data object [*.rda], gene_info.csv, gm.csv, and metadata.csv)
- Sample output—compare to the analysis results of the mini-dataset
Supported operating systems
- Windows 7, Windows 10
- macOS Mojave (v10.14) or higher
- Linux CentOS 6.9+ or higher
Hardware requirements
- 8 GB RAM
- >2 GB of free disk space
Additional third-party software dependencies*
- R
- RStudio Desktop
- R devtools
- Pandoc (optional; only required for advanced users that wish to forgo RStudio and run R from the command line)
*Not included with the software; must be downloaded and installed separately.
Supported applications
See a list of supported applications.
Additional product information
For use in conjunction with workflows on the ICELL8 cx Single-Cell or ICELL8 Single-Cell System. More information is available in the Cogent NGS Discovery Software v1.5 User Manual or Quick Start Guide.
Cogent NGS Discovery Software version history
Version number | Release date | Notes |
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CogentDS 1.5 | 2021-12-03 |
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CogentDS 1.0 | 2020-09-11 |
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hanta software 1.0 | 2019-06-07 |
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