SolveBio [Resources_Start-Ups]

Cheap DNA-sequencing technologies have sparked rapid growth among biomedical companies looking to create new diagnostic tools and personalized therapeutic drugs, and even to give consumers insight into their own genomes. However, the raw data from an individual DNA sequence actually isn??t very informative on its own; as is the case with a raw trace of GPS data, making sense of an individual DNA sequence usually means situating it in the context of a map. And that´s what New York City–based SolveBio is doing: building a kind of Google Maps for genomics, by combining both public and private data sets into a standardized, quality-controlled collection. Computational biologists and bioinformaticists can then enhance their own software by programming it to tap into SolveBio´s knowledge base using an online connection.