The Vision
With +15 years in the industry, The Sequencing Center’s CEO, Richard Casey Ph.D, has long believed that the future of biological and medical discoveries will be driven by genomics. After years of watching fellow colleagues struggle to get critical genomic data for their research, he decided in 2016 it was time to solve this problem in the commercial business realm. He envisioned a world where genome sequencing would be an effortless and efficient process at prices that wouldn’t decimate entire grants or take months to receive data for a single sample.
The Strategy
While most companies have a focus on centerpiece research, our facility focuses on efficiency in the edges, enabling our customers to rely on a single facility for their end-to-end research. Richard saw that conventional lab methodologies were failing to make sequencing more accessible to researchers, so he sought out a team to dismantle the hurdles of the outdated sequencing lab model.
He brought together specialists in robotic automation, machine learning, and bioinformatics to re-imagine a hyper efficient, top-quality sequencing operation. This unique combination of backgrounds allows The Sequencing Center to build the bridges required to merge genotypic and phenotypic data at scale and unlock breakthrough discoveries for researchers.