2/9/12
Spiral Genetics Finalist for WTIA Best Seed Stage Company
After the announcement of the Washington Technology Industry Association’s (WTIA) 17th annual Industry Achievement Awards (IAA), Spiral Genetics is happy to be recognized as a finalist for the “Best Seed Stage Company of the Year” category.
The Industry Achievement Awards acknowledge the outstanding individuals, companies and students in the Washington state technology industry. There are six categories, where a panel of technology leaders will choose the winners.
The list of nominees include:
- Best Seed State Company: Simply Measured, Spiral Genetics, Zipline Games
- Consumer Product or Service of the Year: DocuSign, Parallels, Zillow
- Commercial Product or Service of the Year: EagleView Technologies, SEOMoz, Skytap
- Technology Accelerator Award: Founder’s Co-Op, Lighter Capital, Opscode
- CEO of the Year: Ben Huh (Cheezburger), Steve Singh (Concur), Bryan Mistele (INRIX)
The awards ceremony will take place on March 15, 2012 from 5:00 to 9:30 p.m. at the Showbox SODO in Seattle. The WTIA is the largest statewide association of technology companies and executives in the world. For more information visit http://www.washingtontechnology.org/.
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12/5/11
Startup Spiral Genetics takes shot at bioinformatics
Bioinformatics has become the kind of field that draws even young entrepreneurs with limited backgrounds in scientific computing. Spiral Genetics, a Seattle-based startup, is a case in point. It grew out of a University of Washington-Bothell entrepreneurship class, and its co-founder and CEO Adina Mangubat studied psychology before getting into the bioinformatics game, Xconomy reports.
Word's getting out that software programs that help researchers gain insights into biological data are in demand, especially as scientists struggle to make sense of a deluge of data made available with fast and inexpensive DNA sequencing. Spiral, which hatched in 2009, has begun with products that wrap together open source software that operates on a distributed computing platform, Xconomy reports, noting that the focus of the startup has changed from the consumer market to the research market during its short history.
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11/30/11
Spiral Genetics Looks to Crunch DNA Data in New Way
DNA data is piling up on servers and hard drives near you, and scientists are struggling to sort through it all as genome sequencing keeps getting faster and cheaper. Seattle-based Spiral Genetics is the latest startup in town with ambitions to help relieve some of the IT pain that biomedical scientists are feeling.
Spiral was founded in 2009 by a couple of students in a University of Washington-Bothell entrepreneurship class. Two years later, the company has introduced its first couple of commercial software programs, lined up critical support from Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure, and signed up a handful of paying customers, including the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver, BC.