GENXT

28/09/2022

We are now GENXT!

GENXT [ʤɛ nɛkst], which stands for Genomics x Trust, offers the next level of data protection in multi-stakeholder data analysis enabled by novel privacy-enhancing technologies.

We develop solutions for privacy-by-design collaborative data analysis in genomics and precision medicine to foster development in the understanding of human health and wellbeing.

We are excited to continue our journey under this new identity!

13/04/2022

Data collaboration has a disruptive potential to advance personal genomics. However, databases of genetic testing companies and research centres are locked into silos because of privacy issues.

Confidential Computing is a novel hardware-based technology that enables secure-by-design data collaboration with no data disclosure among the data owners. This is a new paradigm that opens up multi-party data analytics scenarios that have previously been impossible.

Read the full article to find out more about Confidential Computing and GenX’s peer-to-peer ecosystem in !

https://medium.com//confidential-computing-approach-for-secure-by-design-data-collaboration-in-genomics-bc1756de78f1

12/04/2022

GenX has developed the first open-source end-to-end solution for relatedness detection that is reliable and accurate for both close and distant degrees.

The Genomic RelAtedness detection PipelinE (GRAPE) adapts the best practices for software development, includes all necessary steps to process real-world genotypic data, and is ready for production use.

Watch an explainer video about GRAPE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYa0S1MCdic

Check out the article where we provide a detailed overview of the tools and methods used in GRAPE!

https://medium.com//introducing-grape-an-open-source-genomic-relatedness-detection-pipeline-1f11e9e42e18

https://medium.com//introducing-grape-an-open-source-genomic-relatedness-detection-pipeline-1f11e9e42e18https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2...

08/04/2022

More than 37 million people had purchased direct-to-consumer DNA tests from the three leading genetic testing companies.

Although genetic testing companies continue to expand the variety of their DNA tests, consumer behaviour trends show that ancestry prediction and DNA relatives matching services remain the key market growth drivers.

However, our market research of 165 genetic companies showed that only 15% of the companies provided Ancestry and DNA Matching products in 2021.

In our first article, we explore and discuss the reasons why most genetic testing companies struggle to introduce best-selling products.

Follow the link to read the full article!

Trends: ancestry prediction and DNA relatives matching are the best-selling direct-to-consumer genetic services

07/04/2022

GenX is excited to announce that we have become members of the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, UK!

Wellcome Genome Campus is home to some of the world's foremost institutes and organizations in genomics and computational biology, including Genomics England, EMBL-EBI, Illumina, and Sanger Wellcome Trust.

We look forward to working together with Wellcome Genome Campus residents and contributing our bioinformatics expertise to existing research projects.

06/04/2022

GenX empowers data collaboration in genomics implementing Confidential Computing and Federated Learning technologies for secure and privacy-preserving multi-party data analytics.

Confidential Computing is the protection of data-in-use by performing the computation in a hardware-based Trusted Ex*****on Environment.

GenX connects genetic testing companies, research centers, and software developers, enabling them to conduct secure data collaborations while preserving the confidentiality and integrity of both data and algorithms.

GenX is a member of the Confidential Computing Consortium and Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. GenX is backed by BioCity and was supported with a two-year grant by Microsoft for Startups.

We cannot wait to share more info about what we do!