About Us
Gene Codes Corporation has a 20-year history of developing cutting-edge widely used software products for DNA sequence analysis. Our desktop product, Sequencher™, is the most widely used sequence assembly software program in academic, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical life sciences laboratories around the world.
In 1997, we began developing specialized capabilities in Sequencher™ for doing forensic-oriented mtDNA analysis, and these analysis tools are now the standard at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory [AFDIL] and the FBI as well as most forensic Mitochondrial DNA labs.
When the United States was attacked on September 11th, 2001, Gene Codes Corporation was asked by the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to help identify the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. The result of this work has become known as the Mass Fatality Identification System, M-FISys (pronounced "emphasis") and is an extraordinary application with the ability to manage forensic DNA information on an unprecedented scale.
In addition to our ongoing work with the OCME on the 9/11 WTC victim identification, we have also been on the ground providing key operational consulting to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification Command in Phuket after the 2004 tsunami. Additional clients include the governments of the UK and Mexico who have recently licensed our software for a variety of applications in the field.
In addition to providing unique software tools to facilitate DNA analysis, Gene Codes Forensics provides operational consulting and management services. We have extensive and unique experience developing the administrative review processes for large-scale forensic DNA matching projects, as well as the creation of large DNA profile matching databases at the State and Federal levels that can be customized to use any combination of traditional STRs, Y-STR's, mtDNA and SNPs.