Computomics
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 Computomics' Headquarters in Tübingen, Germany | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Biotechnology |
| Founded | Tübingen, Germany (October 23, 2012); Madison, Wisconsin, United States (April 22, 2016) |
| Founder | |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
Number of locations | 3 offices (2016) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Sebastian J. Schultheiss (Managing Director) |
| Services | |
Number of employees | (100) |
| Subsidiaries | Computomics Corporation |
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.
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.