BioVoice News May 2017 Issue 12 Volume 1 | Page 35

differentiator of Strand Ramanujan is the range of tasks it carries out. As the image below indicates, Strand Ramanujan is an end-to-end intelligence augmentation platform that manages workflows of a diagnostic lab from sample collection through clinical interpretation and reporting. We are unaware of any platform anywhere that competes with Ramanujan in “end- to-end”. This translates into Strand’s unique ability to provide accurate reports with aggressive turn-around times and at reduced costs which will only improve at scale. What are the latest global trends in next- generation sequencing technology that will revolutionize medical sciences? Is India contributing enough? One major trend in next- generation sequencing is the continuously reducing cost of sequencing. NGS technologies are following a rapidly accelerating exponential law that has come to be called “Flatley’s Law”, which is moving at roughly the square of Moore’s law since 2008. India is not in a position to really make a dent in the sequencing technology platform technologies today. However, as sequencing kits and instruments become cheaper we anticipate BIOVOICENEWS.COM 35