Lausanne, Switzerland - July 10, 2020 - Saphetor SA, a Swiss precision-medicine company and leader in diagnostic and bioinformatics solutions for clinical Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), announced today a distribution agreement with Decode Science. Saphetor’s VarSome Clinical, a clinically-certified platform for interpretation of NGS data extends Decode’s portfolio of tools and services for a wide range of its clients employing NGS technologies for clinical as well as for research purposes.
Joshua Warburton, Business Manager of Decode Science, said: ‘As a distributor of genomic technologies and molecular analysis products, we provide our customers with novel solutions and innovations to be able to offer our customers the best in class tools available. This new partnership helps us to deliver high-quality, state-of-the-art bioinformatics services to our partners in the clinical and research fields.’
Tomas Kucera, Head of Business Development of Saphetor SA, commented: ‘We are excited to count Decode Science among our regional distributors for our bioinformatics tools, and we are prepared to work closely with their team to provide their clients with an integrated solution for diagnostics purposes.’
Decode Science is the premier distributor of Genomic Technologies across Australia and New Zealand. Decode Science engages customers with strong technical and commercial offerings to provide the solutions to enable customers in Australia and New Zealand to publish faster, provide better clinical results and to commercialise with confidence.
Saphetor SA, is a Swiss precision-medicine company dedicated to large-scale identification and interpretation of human genetic variants by leveraging proprietary algorithms and expert domain knowledge. Saphetor is the creator of VarSome, a suite of intuitive and data-driven bioinformatics solutions both for clinicians and researchers. VarSome.com search engine and professional community is freely accessible, featuring a widely-recognized community-driven knowledge base that enables flexible queries across more than 50 genetic and genomic data resources. VarSome Clinical is a clinically-accredited platform allowing fast and accurate variant discovery, annotation, and interpretation of NGS data for whole genomes, exomes, and gene panels, which helps clinicians reach faster and more accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions for genetic conditions.