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I thought it would be interesting to reflect on Cofactor’s time in the Y Combinator Summer 2015 batch after getting seven months of perspective and work under our belts. I really wanted to [...]

Cofactor recently presented a poster at AGBT 2016, in collaboration with NuGEN, and I thought it might be interesting to share it here (in a blog format) for those of you who were not able to [...]

Medical Testing Is So Hot Right Now. This Startup Wants In.  

What would it feel like to be the last “one” on earth? Sudan is the last male northern white rhino on the face of planet and he is surrounded by armed guards 24 hours a day. The guards and dogs [...]

July 21, 2015, St. Louis, MO Cofactor Genomics has been awarded a $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO. – February 19, 2015 – Cofactor Genomics, a St. Louis-based company active in the area of advanced next-generation sequencing applications, today announced that it has passed the [...]

I have conversations quite often where an individual expresses interest in using less and less DNA for next-generation sequencing library construction. Of note, most of their interest surrounds [...]

In this blog post, I will be talking about process noise or variability. This is something that we have been thinking a lot about lately and thought it would be a good time to let you know what [...]

Part 6 of our 6 part series on RNA-seq. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 6. Understand where the noise threshold is in your RNA-seq data. This one today will be short…. we are in [...]

Part 5 of our 6 part series on RNA-seq. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 5. Estimate the number of biological replicates and reads needed to accomplish your goals…. before you start sequencing! I [...]