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Nov 30, 20232 min read
Genpax named 2023 winners of the IET Excellence and Innovation Award for Health Technology
Genpax, a life science startup focused on transforming healthcare in detecting, tracing, and mitigating the spread of bacterial...
Sep 7, 20232 min read
Economic and health impact modelling of a whole genome sequencing-led intervention strategy for bacterial healthcare-associated infections for England and for the USA
Download the full paper below: Abstract Bacterial healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a substantial source of global morbidity...
Jun 6, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: Reference-free Whole Genome SNP analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Presented by Arthur Poivet at ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas 2023 Download high-resolution pdf below: Supplementary Information
Jun 6, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: A novel genome comparison tool for same-patient samples of E. coli ST131
Presented by Rebecca Ji Bengtsson at ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas 2023 Download the high-resolution pdf below: Supplementary Information
May 10, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: Putting numbers on the economics of WGS
Presented by John Fox at ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas 2024 Bacterial HAIs are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality,...
May 10, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: Calling zero - A new foundation for diagnostic bacterial genomics
Presented by James Littlefair at ECCMID in Copenhagen, 2023 Download high-resolution pdf below: At ECCMID 2023 in Copenhagen, we...
Mar 23, 20231 min read
Reproducible, Reproducible, Reproducible
The same features of the Genpax analysis that mean that all strains of a species can be compared in one location with a common analysis...
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Scaling new bioinformatic heights
Genpax analysis was created for the real-world problem from the bottom-up with scalability as an essential requirement. Scalability is a...
Feb 16, 20233 min read
A resolution is coming
When strains are evolving at 1 to 10 nucleotides per year per genome, it is important to address as much of the genome sequence...
Jan 27, 20233 min read
Why near-zero error matters
With some variation by species and genome size, most bacterial pathogens normally change at a rate of up to 10 SNP changes per genome per...
Apr 4, 20223 min read
Genomics and knowing the enemy.
As Sun Tzu famously said: ‘know your enemy’, or more correctly: ‘If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of...
Mar 1, 20223 min read
What is the larger threat of hospital-associated infection?
COVID-19 is not the pandemic I was predicting. Year after year, for just over 10 years a new class of about 150 young, smart medical...
Feb 1, 20223 min read
A hidden cost of COVID?
Life is full of initially hidden and unintended impacts and consequences; for something as huge and pervasive as COVID, no doubt they...
Jan 3, 20224 min read
When will someone call laST orders?
Sequence Typing (ST) is a widely established and used methodology. It is most certainly better than its predecessors from the era before...
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