SciGenom Labs explained

SciGenom Labs
Type:Private company
Foundation:Kochi,Kerala – India (2009)
Founder:Sam Santhosh
Industry:Genomics and R&D
Locations:Kochi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, U.S.A

SciGenom Labs is a genomics company with facilities in Kochi, India and USA (San Francisco) functioning as a Genomics incubator. They are certified NABL, ISO and DSIR-GoI recognised. Started in 2009 by Sam Santhosh,[1] the company has over 100 employees spread across its facilities.[2] Units incubated and spun off from SciGenom include MedGenome,[3] a molecular diagnostics testing company with labs in Narayana Heath City (NH) and QB3 Bio (San Francisco), AgriGenome,[4] a company leverging genomics for breeding better crops with labs in Hyderabad and Kochi, Saksin LifeSciences Private Limited, a drug development company with a biobetter molecule for AMD, based in Chennai and MagGenome a bio-nanotech company with nucelci acid extraction products using non-coated magnetics nanoparticles, based in Chennai and Kochi. SGRF (SciGenom Research Foundation) is a non-profit organization supported by SciGenom, which conducts international conferences every year with major research institutions across India [5] and has a medicinal plant garden called 'Hortus Malabaricus[6] ' in Cheruthrurthy, Kerala, India.

Publications

  1. Tirumurugaan Krishnaswamy Gopalan.; Pradheepa Gururaj.; Ravi Gupta.; Dhinakar Raj Gopal.; Preeti Rajesh.; Balachandran Chidambaram.; Aravindan Kalyanasundaram.; Raja Angamuthu. (June 2014). "Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Higher Vertebrate Orthologous of Intra-Cytoplasmic Pattern Recognition Receptors in Grey Bamboo Shark". PLoS ONE 9(6): e100018.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100018.
  2. Ekici.; Halime.; Rao,S.; Sönnerborg, A.; Ramprasad, V.L.; Gupta, R.; Neogi, U. (Nov 2014)."Cost-efficient HIV-1 drug resistance surveillance using multiplexed high throughput amplicon sequencing: Implications for use in low and middle income countries". Inst för laboratoriemedicin / Dept of Laboratory Medicine..doi: 2014-05-21.
  3. Poulter, J.A.; Al-Araimi, M.; Conte,I.; van Genderen,M.M.; Sheridan,E.; Carr, I.M.; Parry,D.A.; Shires,M.; Carrella,S.; Bradbury,J.; Khan,K.; Lakeman,P.; Sergouniotis,P.I.; Webster,A.R.; Moore,A.T.; Pal,B.; Mohamed,M.D.; Venkataramana,A.; Ramprasad,V.; Shetty,R.; Saktivel,M.; Kumaramanickavel,G.; Tan,A.; Mackey,D.A.; Hewitt,A.W.; Banfi,S.; Ali,M.; Inglehearn,C.F.; Toomes,C.(Nov 2013). "Recessive mutations in SLC38A8 cause foveal hypoplasia and optic nerve misrouting without albinism". Am J Hum Genet.93(6):1143–50. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.11.002.
  4. Ravi Gupta.; Aakrosh Ratan.; Changanamkandath Rajesh.; Rong Chen.; Hie Lim Kim.; Richard Burhans.; Webb Miller.; Sam Santhosh.; Ramana V Davuluri.; Atul J Butte.; Stephan C Schuster.; Somasekar Seshagiri.; George Thomas.(August 2012).“Sequencing and analysis of a South Asian-Indian personal genome”. BMC Genomics 2012 13:440. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-440.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff . Entrepreneur India . 2019-06-03 . Gene Genius . 2022-08-22 . Entrepreneur . en.
  2. Web site: Genomics, the new beckoning for Calsoft founder. www.thehindubusinessline.com. 15 February 2012.
  3. Web site: 'Start-up services should meet customers' needs' - BioSpectrum Asia . 3 July 2014 . 7 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140707181422/http://www.biospectrumasia.com/biospectrum/influencers/213372/-start-services-meet-customers-needs#.U2nxCPmSwYA . dead .
  4. Web site: Kochi firm develops yellow tomato . 2022-08-22 . The New Indian Express.
  5. Web site: SciGenom Labs embarks mitochondria sequencing, reports faster diagnosis of cell diseases. pharmabiz.com.
  6. Book: Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van . Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus = (Malabar garden). . 2003 . Univ. of Kerala . 835159646.