About Basepair

Founded by Harvard School Medical School scientist, Amit Sinha, PhD, BasePair grew out of the belief that all scientists, from Bioinformaticians to Bench Biologists, should be able to analyze, visualize and make sense of genomic data.

Thanks to advances in NGS technology, genomic data is being generated on an unprecedented scale. In response to that, improvements in cloud computing resources have allowed the raw data to be processed and stored with ever increasing efficiency. At BasePair we believe one of the biggest challenges preventing this now arguably lies not with how the data gets generated and processed, but who is able to perform the analysis and understand what it means. Limiting this work to a select few, whether through choice or more often because of technology restrictions, especially for routine analyses, leads to reduced efficiency in R&D teams, longer times to market for assay manufacturers and increased turnaround times in clinical settings.

What is needed is a software platform that democratizes not just access to, but analysis and interpretation of, genomic data. Crucially we believe that this needs to provide the flexibility to do so in a way that allows organizations to connect to and leverage the compute and storage resources in their own cloud account. When that happens, they remain connected to the other analytical capabilities offered by their cloud provider and can benefit from economies of scale by running everything through one account. From there, end users with the appropriate domain expertise should be able to rerun the same workflows in a controlled setting and use a multitude of inbuilt visualization tools and reports to make sense of the data.

Whilst we are fully committed to executing on this vision, no one company can deliver on the promise of precision medicine alone. Equally, although there are benefits to being a startup, we understand the importance of having the support of household names in genomics. That’s why we have developed partnerships with some of the largest and most well known organizations in the space, including Amazon (AWS) and Complete Genomics. When you choose to work with Basepair, know that you also have the support of a much wider community of partners to help with the long term execution of your business and scientific objectives.

Below you’ll find more information about our core team. Wish to join us? Head over to the careers page.