Collaboration assures BGI’s and NRGene’s commitment to the Asian market

August 15, 2016, Ness Ziona, Israel and Shenzhen, China – BGI, the world’s largest omics organization, announced today that it will be offering NRGene’s technology as part of its broad genomics analysis services in agriculture research.

BGI supports genomic research worldwide by offering a variety of genetic research and application technologies for the healthcare, agriculture, conservation, and environmental fields. It also publishes the respected international research journal, GigaScience, to further contribute to the genomics community.

NRGene provides genomic assessment and assembly tools that solve the most complex genomic challenges accurately and rapidly. Most recently, NRGene mapped the bread and pasta wheat genomes, which represent the most complex genomes to assemble, in mere weeks rather than years.

“We have recognized the complementary capabilities that NRGene’s and BGI’s technologies provide to the Chinese genomics community, with its wide and diverse challenges,” said Gao Qiang, CEO of BGI Tech. “The combined technologies will transform Asian agriculture.”

NRGene’s DeNovoMAGIC^TM 2.0 delivers the most accurate reference genomes fast and cost effectively, while PanMAGIC^TM provides genome-to-genome mapping across varieties. It displays all types of sequence differences and structural variations within the studied genetic material including SNPs, InDels of any size, inversions, translocations, gene PAVs, and gene CNVs.

“Being a selected technology by the world’s leading omics group is a major step forward as we continue to disrupt the genomics industry,” said Dr. Gil Ronen, CEO, NRGene. “Our high quality genomic analysis is already advancing agricultural genomics, and this will help drive us into other markets that are primed to accelerate their research.”

About NRGene
NRGene is a genomic big data company developing cutting-edge software and algorithms to reveal the complexity and diversity of crop plants, animals, and aquatic organisms for the most advanced, sophisticated breeding. NRGene tools have already been employed by some of the leading seed companies as well the most influential teams in academia. www.nrgene.com

NRGene Contact
Amy Kenigsberg
K2 Global Communications
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BGI Contact
Bicheng Yang, Ph.D.
Public Communication Officer
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