PetaGene – Business Weekly

Cambridge-based PetaGene software addresses challenges caused by growing volumes of genomics data.

Initially part of a project exploring new storage and compression approaches in collaboration with the European Bioinformatics Institute, it achieves up to a 5x reduction in both storage costs and data transfer times (compared to gzipped FASTQ and BAM files), and integrates with existing storage infrastructure and bioinformatics pipelines.

PetaGene started life as Project PetaGene, a research project by a group of PhD graduates from the University of Cambridge, who worked in collaboration with the European Bioninformatics Institute to try to solve the problem of genomic data storage from a new angle. PetaGene was a member of London-based incubator Entrepreneur Firsts sixth cohort, from which it graduated in 2016.

Co-Founder and Business Development Manager, Vaughan Wittorff (pictured) is a Cambridge University PhD with significant experience in inventing technology and commercialising it in the private sector. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Curtin University of Technology, and long-term Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University in Computer Science and Technology.

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