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Startup Envisagenics Nabs NIH Grant to Develop Alternative Splicing Analysis Tech

Aug 13, 2015
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Doug Macron
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Just weeks after securing $100,000 in seed financing, bioinformatics startup Envisagenics has been awarded $225,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a prototype of its core technology — a cloud-based platform for the detection, quantification, and interpretation of alternative splicing (AS) variation from next-generation sequencing data.

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