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Geneformics Data Systems Ltd. is a high tech company that develops and sells Information Technology software and services for the genomics (or Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)) industry. The company's products and services employ compression and other technologies in the service of NGS data storage, cloud computing and network transmission.

History
Geneformics was founded in Israel in 2014 by Arik Keshet, in cooperation with Prof. Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In the same year the company received seed funding from a group of investors led by Dov Moran, who serves as the company's chairman of the board. In 2015, Geneformics brought to market its first product, the Geneformics S compressed storage server. Also in 2015, the company moved its headquarters to California, USA, while R&D continues to be conducted out of its office in Israel.

Geneformics S
Geneformics S is an on-premises software product that acts as an add-on to a third-pary Network-Attached Storage (NAS) system to provide compressed storage of FASTQ and BAM files.

Geneformics C
Geneformics C is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) product that is deployed as part of a cloud computing platform such as Amazon Web Services to improve the efficiency of cloud storage and accelerate cloud upload and download.