As pointed out in a note the Andalusian Foundation for spreading innovation and knowledge, in recent years discoveries are also analyzing data - 'in silico'-
The Andalusian company, based in Granada and Madrid, Bioinformatics Era7 manages "millions" of data that allow research in less time and without laboratory, so playing the role of 'brain' in scientific projects, with a new system of process Data in the cloud without hardware itself.
As pointed out in a note the Andalusian Foundation for spreading innovation and knowledge, in recent years discoveries are also analyzing data - 'in silico' - and, in this area, information is "vital and data processing is key to achieving the desired results. " The company Granada Era7 Bioinformatics, which began operations in 2005 in Granada, has positioned itself as "the leader in Spain in this sector."
The CEO of the firm, Edward Young, founder of Era7 with Raquel Tobes, indicates that the goal is "applying computational methods to biological problems", which generates "multitude of data that are not manually manageable". This has allowed, for example, reduce to a thousand times the time and investment required for a genome sequencing calls by massive sequencing technologies (NGS) that need this computer.
Specifically, the company offers customer support throughout the research process. "We have no laboratory. When a client tells us he has for example ten strains of bacteria that wants to study. We help them throughout the process, from the design of the experiment and the location of suppliers sequencing. After making the sequence, analyze the data and delivered a final report, "explains Young.
The company that began in web development and multimedia companies in the biomedical sector, also began designing custom software for biotech companies. In parallel, the company was developing software grenadine analyzing himself "an awful amount of data, with millions of reads, so it can not be handled otherwise."
Bioinformatics Era7 has specialized in microbiology, a broad field that includes jobs related to food, health, veterinary, industrial processes, biofuels.
Young explains that specialization in this field has been key to the evolution of the company.Furthermore, all the work is based on free software, so that the tools available to society. "Our customers are research groups, universities, hospitals, institutions. They have the source code available and may use it if they want, but generally prefer the full service that allows them to obtain DNA and deliver a final report with the results, while in other cases they hire us to tailor our service to your institution, "he adds.
The cloud computing or cloud-work is another advantage that presents Era7. "With the use of virtual servers, ie, computers and hard no physical presence in the company, we have access to a computing infrastructure otherwise impossible," a circumstance that facilitates business location in Andalusia. "We can be wherever you want, do not need physical presence in any particular place," he says.
Finally, Era7 Bioinformatics, which currently has a team of 14 people based in Madrid, has launched an assault on the U.S. market. It has a presence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the bet immediately passes do business in the United States to increase activity in Granada. "Our business is not patentable as in other scientific fields, we have intellectual property, but mostly it's knowledge, to have a good team," says the CEO.
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