Johnsee Lee, founder, CEO, and president of Personal Genomics and its sister company Quark Biosciences, provides insights into the company’s proprietary Optoelectronic Sequencing (OES) technology, which can perform whole genome sequencing thousand times faster than existing technologies and increase read length twentyfold in comparison to sequencing products currently on the market, while he expects a prototype to be ready before the end of 2017.
What motivated you to found Personal Genomics in 2011?
"In the grand scheme of things, my vision is to make genome sequencing and its applications more widely available and affordable to patients around the world."
