• 2009

Company Description

Translate Genomic Big Data into Critical Tools for Plant & Animal Research and Breeding.

NRGene supports the global breeding industry and speeds the development of new plant and animal varieties with its cutting-edge predictive computational methods. NRGene, the leading genomic big data company, develops advanced computational tools and cutting-edge algorithmic models to facilitate optimal trait discovery and selection for seed companies, animal breeders, and academia. NRGene’s proven, unique, and comprehensive genomic big data platform enables the detection of genetic differences among individuals that underlie many key traits for breeding such as yield improvement, ability to grow in harsh environmental conditions, and disease resistance. Our proprietary algorithms and software tools serve the rapidly expanding genomics market, replacing the long and expensive processes of random field selection with big data-based projections. The world’s top breeding researchers and entities across academia, NGOs, and seed companies have used NRGene’s technology for analysis of the most genetically complex and diverse species. In less than a year, NRGene has mapped almost 20 genomes, including delivering the world’s first wheat genome map, enhancing maize research with more than five new genome maps, and accelerating aquaculture with the Rainbow trout map. Mapping previously took five-10 years and millions of dollars; NRGene does it in months, weeks, or mere days for at a significantly lower investment. With NRGene’s practical results, researchers and commercial seed and animal breeders can quickly and accurately determine the critical traits required to meet the demands of supplying food to the world. DeNovoMAGIC, available as a service, delivers reference genomes with fast, accurate and cost-effective constructions of very long (million building units) and short (100-250 building units) genome DNA sequence pieces produced by Illumina DNA sequencing machines. GenoMAGIC is a comprehensive solution for analyzing genomic big data of broad populations for diversity mapping and mining. The platform integrates all the genomic big data within an organization on a given organism (e.g. maize, wheat, salmon) combined with publicly available information for better analysis and increased data mining power to reach more accurate breeding decisions. The platform is used to analyze, synchronize, and share genomic data among molecular breeders, bioinformaticians and breeding teams. GenoMAGIC remains the only commercial available computational solution that can analyze and synchronize genomic data of millions of individuals, delivering real answers to practical questions that will accelerate breeding and ultimately production. The licensed version of GenoMAGIC can be installed onsite or within a private cloud interface. It is also available as a service.