Strand Life Sciences, formerly Strand Genomics, is an Indian ''

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'' technology company, based in

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. Strand focuses in data mining,

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bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

, and research biology to develop software and services for life sciences research. Strand also offers custom solutions based on its intellectual property. In 2021,

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' subsidiary Reliance Strategic Business Ventures acquired a

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in Strand Life Sciences.

History

Strand Life Sciences was founded in October 2000 by Professors

Vijay Chandru Vijay Chandru Reddy is an Indian entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and chairman of Strand Life Sciences. Biography Chandru received his bachelor's degree from BITS Pilani in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science from UCLA in Engineeri ...

, Ramesh Hariharan,

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, and V. Vinay. It was registered as Strand Genomics, but was later renamed to Strand Life Sciences as it dealt with various other aspects of life sciences. In August 2007, Strand and

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entered an agreement in which Strand develops and supports Agilent's GeneSpring software which Agilent obtained through Silicon Genetics acquisition in August 2004. In October 2010, Strand and Agilent renewed the agreement for Strand to expand the scope of Agilent's GeneSpring across multiple life sciences disciplines.

Software

* Strand NGS (formerly Avadis NGS) is a software platform for

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data analysis. * GeneSpring GX (version 9.0.0 onwards), GeneSpring Workgroup (version 7.0.0 onwards), and Mass Profiler Pro are developed by Strand's R&D division in Bangalore. * Avadis is a data mining and visualization platform. * Sarchitect is a platform for modeling and predicting drug-relevant properties of molecules

. * ArrayAssist was developed for Stratagene, Inc., based on the Avadis platform. The production was stopped after Stratagene was acquired by

in 2007.

References

External links

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