Computomics

Computomics GmbH
Private
Industry Biotechnology
Founded Tuebingen, Germany (October 23, 2012 (2012-10-23)); Madison, Wisconsin, United States (April 22, 2016 (2016-04-22))
Founder
  • Detlef Weigel
  • Sebastian J. Schultheiss
  • Gunnar Raetsch
  • Daniel Huson
  • Tobias Dezulian
  • Karsten Borgwardt
Headquarters Tuebingen, Germany
Number of locations
 3 offices (2016)
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Sebastian J. Schultheiss (Managing Director)
Services
Subsidiaries Computomics Corporation
Website computomics.com

Computomics is a biotechnology company co-founded by Detlef Weigel and MEGAN author Daniel Huson. Computomics provides bioinformatics data analysis services for plant breeding and metagenomics analyses for plant protection.

Overview

Computomics was founded in October 2012[1] after the enormous decline in price of genome sequencing brought on by Next generation sequencing.[2] Six scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society and University of Tübingen noted that plant genome sequencing was now tenable, but data analysis would remain a bottleneck. Computomics has been featured in several nationwide publications, because it is one of very few companies focusing on plant breeding and plant genome analysis.[3][4][5]

In September 2015, High-Tech Gründerfonds backed Computomics.[1] In April 2016, Computomics opened offices for their subsidiary in the United States in Madison, Wisconsin and in Davis, California.

Executives and Scientific Advisors

Sebastian J. Schultheiss is a co-founder as well as the Managing Director of Computomics.[6] Schultheiss completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Tuebingen with a year spent abroad at University of Michigan where he majored in Bioinformatics. Upon graduation, Schultheiss pursued his doctorate in Bioinformatics at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society under Gunnar Rätsch and Jan Lohmann.

Detlef Weigel is a Director of the Molecular Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen. Weigel co-founded Computomics and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board. Daniel Huson is a professor for Algorithms in Bioinformatics at the University of Tuebingen and author of the metagenomics analysis software MEGAN.

References

  1. 1 2 "High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) invests in the agricultural biotechnology startup Computomics GmbH". high-tech-gruenderfonds.de. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  2. ↑ "Next-Generation Sequencing Moves to Next-Next Level". GEN. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  3. ↑ "German Bioinformatics Start-Up to Study GMO Crops Genomes". Labiotech.eu. 2015-11-05. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  4. ↑ "Computomics Looks to Expand Plant Genome Analysis Service in North America". GenomeWeb. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  5. ↑ "Biotechnologie.de". biotechnologie.de - Initiative des BMBF. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  6. ↑ "Management - Computomics Molecular Data Analysis". computomics.com. Retrieved 2016-06-10.

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