ABOUT
GenAlice is a leading supplier of NGS Library construction kits. Through contacts with Oracle and Erasmus MC, we started into the world of DNA-research.
From our experience in the area of high performance and high volume data management, we quickly saw opportunities to make a necessary difference in the advent of a large data wave caused by ground-breaking sequence NGS technology improvements. It still took time and hard study to transform our ideas into a concrete design and plan, but with good results.
Working as advisor at the Genomics Core Leuven the in depth knowledge of his team of system biology and DNA, we have been able to define focus and create a blueprint for GenAlice kits.
We set ourselves the goal to build scalable and cost-reducing solutions for large scale DNA correlation. Correlation and research should become cheaper with increasing volume. Then, and only then, it will be possible to contribute to the quality of life of people with cancer. Such contribution should be available for ALL people, instead of only for the happy few due to the high cost- and time-attributes which till now are associated with DNA-research.
We designed a set of new techniques in the area of data-presentation, data-processing, execution optimizations, data-storage and indexing. These, having a general character and application, make a key difference for processing large quantities of data with a complex, non-uniform and dynamic meaning such as DNA data.