DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[mingwan0]

A selection of past quotes:

"By marketing our platform directly to the public, we intend to make comprehensive genotype screening solutions accessible to people all over the world via the Internet."

"Accessing of the data is going to be accomplished through the internet most likely. First of all the hospital is going to need to know where to genotype a patient, where to look in their chromosome. We will tell them from our results. Our software will be a sort of an operating system. They want to produce a test for Provacol for patients, we'll look up Provacol and see what markers they need to screen. They'll order the test kits from one of our partners, commercialization partners. They'll perform the test at their hospital and they'll have raw genetic data from the patient. Which they won't know what to do with. What they're going to do with it is use our operating system to push it through the internet, compare it against our population level solutions, and to basically classify the patient based on our results."

"The Orchid UHT can process up to 125,000 genotypes per day. More than adequate for immediate processing needs. The bottleneck is in Buccal sample preparation. That is a manual process, is time consuming, and limits overall throughput of the lab."

I believe they work 8 hour shifts so that works out at 4.3 genotypes per second or one every 0.23 seconds. Using a 171 marker test that means some 39 seconds for genotyping plus communication time plus automated buccal swab preparation (the latter would be done at the front end). That's with current technology of course. What if this was a DNA chip based solution rather than an Internet based one? We have already been told that version 3.0 will have to be chip based due to the number of markers. A number of possibilities, it just needs a bit of imagination.