Pragmatic Genomics Ltd.

Empowering biologists to analyse DNA and protein sequence data  

The commoditisation and decentralisation of DNA sequencing continues to completely change biological research and applications. A key challenge that accompanies the resulting opportunities is making sense of the spectacular amounts of genomic data that scientists can now easily generate.   

We developed SequenceServer, a software that empowers biologists to BLAST analyse proprietary DNA and protein sequence data in their web browser. The software's intuitive user experience and advanced visualisation and collaboration capabilities accelerate discovery across agroindustry, pharma, biotech, academia and non-profit sectors. SequenceServer is used by thousands and the publication describing it been cited more than 200 times. Its applications include vaccine development, synthetic biology, crop growth optimisation, tracking illegal ivory seizures, and education.   

Open source SequenceServer has been developed since 2012 by Prof Wurm's lab at Queen Mary University of London. Pragmatic Genomics Limited was spun out in 2021 to further improve its accessibility, providing point-and-click configuration and secure hosted cloud servers.