Golden Helix: Empowering Precision Medicine through Next-Gen Technology

The quest for Precision Medicine is creating a paradigm shift in the way health diagnosis and treatments are being carried out today. Precision Medicine allows for more accurate diagnosis and treatment by leveraging an individual’s genetic makeup, answering questions such as “What specific disease does this person have?”,“How does this person metabolize medications?”, and “What kind of treatment options are available based on the presence of specific genetic markers?” just to name a few. This shift extends to all facets of healthcare from research organizations to hospitals, testing laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and government organizations, bringing the challenge of managing, analyzing and cataloguing increasingly massive amounts of genetic data. To help overcome these challenges and empower Precision Medicine, Golden Helix, an analytics software company based in Bozeman, MT is putting its 17 years of experience with over 300 organizations in the industry to work.

Golden Helix’s SNP and Variation Suite (SVS) software empowers research organizations as well as pharmaceutical companies to perform the complex statistical analyses involved in genome-wide association studies and rare variant analysis in order to uncover the associations between diseases and underlying genetic markers. SVS allows this complex process to be executed simply and easily, by the researchers themselves, without requiring the support of a bioinformatics specialist drastically cutting the OPEX.

For hospitals and testing labs, where the impact of Precision Medicine is more direct. Golden Helix offers a clinical suite of products, which helps to speed up the process of analyzing large data-sets. This in turn allows clinicians to diagnose patients more effectively and to quickly select the most appropriate treatment options, based on genetic makeup. “VarSeq is proving to be a highly valued tool in the clinical testing market," said Andreas Scherer, President and CEO of Golden Helix. “VarSeq has helped testing labs like Prevention Genetics achieve their goal of offering exome testing by helping them to speed up the analysis of exome sequencing data.”