The race is on to bring the predictive and diagnostic power of genome sequencing to health care. The trick is to do the sequencing and analysis quickly and inexpensively. We’ve seen several substantial venture investments in companies with different approaches this year — like Omicia and DNAnexus.
When he was 17 years old, Zhao Bowen dropped out of Beijing’s most prestigious high school. Like many restless young people in China, he headed south to Shenzhen, the country’s factory capital, for a job. As a teenage science prodigy, however, he wasn’t bound for an assembly-line floor; instead, he was on his way to the world’s largest production center for DNA data. Now, a few years later, in a retrofitted shoe factory that is the headquarters of BGI-Shenzhen, the 21-year-old is orchestrating an effort to decipher the genetic makeup of some 2,000 people—more than 12 trillion DNA bases in all.
The Startup Genome Report es un proyecto de investigación sobre el perfil de la Startup de éxito en Silicon Valley que está siendo desarrollado por las Universidades de Stanford y Berkeley.
Se fundamenta sobre el modelo de referencia propuesta por Steve Blank, un emprendedor en serie que ha participado en la creación de ocho empresas y que actualmente es profesor en las universidades de Stanford, Berkeley y Columbia.
El fichero adjunto permite acceder al informe sobre el Genoma de la Startup.
