BENCH is Cartagenia’s flagship platform for array-CGH. This intelligent repository and software solution supports diagnosis and research in constitutional cytogenetics, facilitating rapid interpretation of copy number alterations in patient samples, and supporting the assessment of clinical relevance and impact of the large number of copy number variants in patient and population genotypes.

BENCH is more than just a database and intelligent software platform. It is a continuously evolving platform that is not only pushed forward from a functional point of view, but draws it's power from a multitude of regularly updated underlying information sources. Genetic knowledge is rapidly evolving: publicly available CNV sets evolve, PubMed grows with nearly a million publications per year, new databases emerge, Ensembl releases new assemblies, genome annotations are continuously updated, as are external resources like the Database of Genomic Variants, known syndrome lists, gene function databases, and so on.

BENCH follows the most recent releases of all these information sources, and integrates tightly with them, enabling data interpretation on speed with the most recent body of genetic knowledge.

BENCH is currently used throughout Europe by several genetics laboratories and hospitals performing cytogenetic screens, and speeds up the diagnostic workflow significantly. It is compatible with a large number of both commercial and in-house array-CGH platforms, raw data analysis tools, external databases, and public information sources.