Computomics is a biotechnology company co-founded by

Detlef Weigel Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Education Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefel ...

and

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author, Daniel Huson. Computomics provides

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...

data analysis services for plant breeding and

metagenomics Metagenomics is the study of all genetics, genetic material from all organisms in a particular environment, providing insights into their composition, diversity, and functional potential. Metagenomics has allowed researchers to profile the mic ...

analyses for plant protection.

Overview

Computomics was founded in October 2012 after the enormous decline in price of genome sequencing brought on by

Next generation sequencing DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. The ...

. Six scientists from the

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE) * Max (gorilla) ( ...

Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society is a biological research institute located on the Society's campus in Tübingen, Germany, named after Friedrich Miescher, founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists ...

and

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...

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. In September 2015,

High-Tech Gründerfonds HTGF (High-Tech Gründerfonds) is a public-private venture capital investment firm based in Bonn, Germany, with additional offices in Berlin and Munich. As an early stage seed investor, HTGF focuses on high potential high-tech startups in indust ...

backed Computomics. In April 2016, Computomics opened offices for their subsidiary in the United States in

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and in

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Executives and scientific advisors

Sebastian J. Schultheiss is a

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as well as the

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of Computomics. Schultheiss completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Tübingen with a year spent abroad at

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

where he majored in

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...

. Upon graduation, Schultheiss pursued his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in Bioinformatics at the

under Gunnar Rätsch and Jan Lohmann. Detlef Weigel is a Director of the Molecular Biology Department at the

in Tübingen. Weigel co-founded Computomics and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board. Daniel Huson is a professor for Algorithms in Bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen and author of the metagenomics analysis software

References

External links

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