Due Diligence: Seven Bridges Genomics (Part 3)

At last, following a genomics industry overview (Part 1) and cloud-based genomics analysis platform macro-view (Part 2), we arrive at the micro-level market landscape surrounding Seven Bridges Genomics.

In Part 2, I mentioned that the cloud-based genomics analysis space is crowded.

To give you a sense of just how crowded (read: very crowded), I’ve enumerated the companies in Seven Bridges Genomics’ competitive sphere. I used my best judgement with respect to direct competitors.

Suffice to say, even when restricted to direct competitors, it really is crowded. There is no clear market leader as of yet, so the next few years are going to very exciting/scary for many of these folks. So many ways to die.

Speaking of ways to be disintermediated before wide-spread platform acceptance, I want to give a special shout-out the Next-gen sequencing companies directly building cloud application to plug-into their own systems: GenapSys, Ion Torrent Systems, Oxford Nanopore.

Oxford Nanopore, still in quasi-shadow-mode as they are, like to be secretive; however, they mention AWS cloud applications in their Early Access Documentation. That, along with the very end-to-end nature and slow-to-market release, leads me to believe it’s in the pipe. I’ll be exploring these guys a bit more, later.

In Part 4, we’ll take a deep-dive into Seven Bridges Genomics, assessing positioning and key risks. Until then, enjoy (aside: sorry about the side-scroll, until I find a better solution for narrow blogger page widths)…

Company 1,2	Location	Founding	Tags 3,4	Products	Cloud	Direct Competitor
Agile Genomics*	Mt Pleasant, SC	2007?	Consulting	AlignShop, MiST Database	X
Aridhia Informatics*	Edinburgh, UK	2008	Healthcare/Clinical	AnalytiXagility	X
Appistry*	St. Louis, MO	2001	Consulting	Ayrris	X
Ayasdi*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2008	General Machine Learning	Ayasdi Cure/Topological Data Analysis (TDA)	X
BGI EasyGenomics*	Greater Boston, MA	1999/2010	Nonprofit, Core Facility, Open Source	Various	X
Bina Technologies*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2011	Hardware/IT	Bina Applications	X	X
BioDatomics*	Greater Washington, DC	2012	Open Source	SaaS, Pro, Community5	X	X
Congenica*	Cambridge, UK	2013	Healthcare/Clinical, Healthcare/Diagnostic	Sapienta	?	? (Not Released)
Cypher Genomics	Greater San Diego Area, CA	2011		Mantis	X	X (Early Access)
DNAnexus*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2009		DNAnexus Platform	X	X
Eagle Genomics*	Cambridge, UK	2008	Consulting	ElasticAP	X
Era7 Bioinformatics*	Granada, Spain; Greater Boston, MA	2004	Consulting, Open Source, Bacterial	N/A
Fios Genomics*	Edinburgh, UK	2008	Consulting	N/A
GenapSys6	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2010	Hardware/Sequencing	Genius	X	?
Genestack*	Cambridge, UK; St. Petersburg, Russia	2012		Genestack Platform	X	X (Beta)
Genome Cloud	Seoul, Korea	?		g-Insight	X	X
Genomics Limited	Oxford, UK	2014	Shadow-mode	N/A
GenoSpace	Greater Boston, MA	2011	Shadow-mode	?	X
Geospiza PerkinElmer*	Seattle, WA	1997	Desktop	GeneSifter
Globus Genomics	Chicago, IL	?		Globus Platform	X	?
Ion Torrent Systems by Life Technolgies 7*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2007	Hardware/Sequencing	Ion Reporter	X	?
Maverixbio*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2012	Desktop	Maverix Analytic Platform
NextBio by Illumina*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2004	Desktop?	NextBio Platform
NZGL	Dunedin, New Zealand	?	Consulting
Omicia Biocomputing*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2009	Healthcare/Clinical	Opal	X
Oxford Gene Technology*	Oxford, UK	1995	Desktop, Sequencing Service	CytoSure Interpret
Oxford Nanopore 8*	Oxford, UK	2005	Hardware/Sequencing	X	?
Personalis*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2011	Consulting, CRO, Sequencing Service	N/A
Seven Bridges Genomics*	Greater Boston, MA; Belgrade, Serbia (IT)	2009		Igor	X	X
Spiral Genetics*	Seattle, WA	2012?	Consulting, Desktop	N/A / Anchored Assembly Method
Station X*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2010	Desktop	Gene Pool
Syapse*	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	2009	Healthcare/Clinical	Synapse Platform	X
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)*	Norwich, UK	2009	Nonprofit, Core Facility	Various	X
Tute Genomics*	Salt Lake City, UT	2012		Tute Platform/ANNOVAR	X	?

Technical Notes:
After a misguided regression/sojourn into typing Part 2 in Google docs then copying to Blogger, which resulted in ultra-crap formating, I’m back to using stacked.io, which I explored here. If there is demand/interest, I’m willing to update/convert this listing to a more dynamic format. Just give a shout in the comments.

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1. To the best of my knowledge, these companies form a closed set under the LinkedIn feature ‘People Also Viewed’, omitting spurious hits. ↩
2. * Direct link to company LinkedIn Page ↩
3. Companies are for-profit unless otherwise stated, e.g. Nonprofit ↩
4. Core facility implies Sequencing Service. ↩
5. BioDT Community is free to use ↩
6. Special shout-out for Hardware/Sequencing companies with cloud applications. ↩
7. Special shout-out for Hardware/Sequencing companies with cloud applications. ↩
8. Special shout-out for Hardware/Sequencing companies with cloud applications. ↩