Services

Microbial sequencing analysis with biological judgment attached.

Core services are built around phages, bacterial isolates, complex microbial communities, and fermentation systems. Each project is scoped around the biological question, not just the file format.

FASTQ/FASTA acceptedShort-read, long-read, or hybrid projectsResearch-use-only
Flagship

Phage genome characterization

For phage discovery, therapy-oriented research, biotech development, and environmental phage collections.

  • Assembly quality control, completeness, contamination, and genome structure checks.
  • Taxonomy, lifestyle prediction, integrase/lysogeny warning signs, and safety screening.
  • Functional annotation, receptor-binding proteins, tail fibers, depolymerases, Ig-like domains, and other relevant features.
  • Candidate ranking across batches of phages using genomic and experimental metadata.
  • Publication-ready tables, figures, and methods text when needed.
Core

Bacterial isolate WGS

For research, veterinary, environmental, food, and industrial microbiology projects.

  • Species confirmation, assembly QC, contamination checks, and genome annotation.
  • AMR genes, virulence factors, plasmids, prophages, and mobile genetic elements.
  • MLST/cgMLST or SNP-based comparison where appropriate.
  • Strain relationship and project-specific biological interpretation.
  • Clear distinction between detected genotype and experimentally confirmed phenotype.
Exploratory

Metagenomics and microbiome analysis

For feces, soil, food, animal, and environmental samples.

  • Quality control, host/contaminant filtering, taxonomic profiling, and diversity analysis.
  • Functional profiling for metabolism, stress response, resistance, virulence-associated markers, and ecological shifts.
  • Healthy vs affected patch comparisons, time-series monitoring, or treatment-response profiling.
  • Candidate pathogen and beneficial taxa screening, with conservative interpretation.
  • Follow-up recommendations for targeted PCR, culturing, isolate sequencing, or experimental validation.
Applied

Fermentation & brewing genomics

For breweries, cheesemakers, distilleries, and other food-fermentation producers monitoring batch consistency and microbial risk.

  • Batch-to-batch community comparison across yeasts, bacteria, and spoilage organisms.
  • Contamination and spoilage screening: wild yeast, lactic and acetic acid bacteria, and off-flavour producers.
  • Starter-culture and strain-identity confirmation across production runs.
  • Time-series or intervention monitoring to catch microbial drift before it reaches the product.
  • Plain-language flags on what needs re-culturing, re-testing, or process attention.
Custom

Research bioinformatics support

For teams that need a clean analysis package for manuscripts, grants, or collaborative projects.

  • Study-specific pipeline design and reproducible workflow documentation.
  • Publication-grade figures and supplementary tables.
  • Reviewer-response analysis support.
  • Re-analysis of older datasets with improved methods.
  • Bioinformatics consulting for experimental planning before sequencing money is burned heroically.