Last deal

$3.1M

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

16.12.2009

Date

3

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$11.2M

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About Company
GQ Life Sciences, Inc. is a global life science information and search company.

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GenomeQuest

founded date

01.01.2001

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For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

The company offers two major products, GenomeQuest and LifeQuest, which provide genomics software designed to search the patent domain. Their application combines content, search, analysis, and reporting functionality to produce a biological sequence search tool. With over 500 million sequences found in patents indexed, researchers can perform, manage, and share findings from a web browser styled database. The company's state-of-the-art sequence comparison algorithms put powerful tools for patent sequence search at your fingertips.
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