Services for Biotech and Pharma Companies

Softberry, Inc. is a leading developer of wide specter of software tools for genomic and proteomic research with application to drug candidates discovery, as well as to identification of useful gene/proteins in agricultural business

There are several ways Softberry's software and expertise is used by biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies:

• Licensing our popular programs such as genefinders, EST_MAPping and protein localization programs to facilitate genome and protein analysis
• Developing custom gene finding parameters for more accurate gene finding in human, plants, pathogenic bacteria, yeast and viruses
• Installation of entire program package for local network use
• Collaboration in research and data analysis with development of customized product or pipeline using several programs
• Integration of genomic and expression data in Softberry's cross-platform genome browser
• Analysis of expression data to find disease-specific genes by using our Seltag system
• Clusterization of ESTs and using clustered sets for prediction of alternative splicing gene variants using FGENESH_C and EST_MAP programs

Softberry's main areas of software development and expertise are:

• Genome annotation and gene finding in eukaryotes, bacteria and viruses, EST mapping
• Functional site identification in DNA and proteins, promoter finding
• Genome comparison, fast genome and database search, and development of cross-platform interfaces for presentation of results
• Expression data analysis
• Protein structure prediction
• Protein compartment (destination) prediction
• EST clustering
• Integration of genomic and expression data in cross-platform Java-based graphical interface.

List of licensees of our products includes over fifty leading pharmaceutical, biotech and agricultural companies, from around the world. Some of them are listed here: