GenomeWeb LLC is an online news organization based in

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. Established in 1997, it aims to report scientific and business news related to

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, ...

History

GenomeWeb LLC was founded in 1997 by publishing entrepreneur Dennis Waters. It initially published only two

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s: ''BioInform'' and ''Agricultural Genomics''. Soon afterward, the company launched several more newsletters, as well as a

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and a set of

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s on their website. By 2011, the company published eight newsletters, a news website, and the print magazine ''Genome Technology''. In September 2019, it was acquired by

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