Computomics applies artificial intelligence to bioinformatics data so agricultural and plant-breeding teams can understand genomics faster and develop better crop varieties.

Founders

• Dr. Detlef Weigel · co-founder
  He was Director of the Molecular Biology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.
• Dr. Daniel Huson · co-founder
  He was Professor for Algorithms in Bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen.
• Dr. Gunnar Rätsch · co-founder
  He was Professor for Biomedical Informatics at ETH Zurich.
• Dr. Karsten Borgwardt · co-founder
  He was Professor for Data Mining in the Biosystems Department of ETH Basel.
• Dr. Sebastian J. Schultheiss · co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
  He was a scientist specializing in bioinformatics analyses of high-throughput DNA-sequencing data and had industry experience before founding Computomics.
• Dr. Tobias Dezulian · co-founder and Managing Director
  He was a scientist specializing in bioinformatics analyses of high-throughput DNA-sequencing data and had industry experience before founding Computomics.

Customers

AB InBev, Beck's, University of California, Davis