Monday, January 23, 2017

Omicia Buys Spiral Genetics

Oakland-based Omicia has acquired Seattle-based Spiral Genetics, a developer of software for the next generation DNA sequencing market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Omicia said the buy will help it add secondary next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis and structural variant capabilities to its software platform. Spiral Genetics was backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.