Ann Arbor’s Genomatix Software looking to add 2 new people now, 8 by 2010

Mapping the human the genome is a daunting task, and one that promises to create more than a few jobs in Genomatix Software’s Ann Arbor office.The firm headquartered in Germany opened its North American office in Ann Arbor in May of 2007 with just Peter Grant, CEO of Genomatix’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. Today it employs three people and has job openings for another two. Grant expects the office’s staff to reach eight by the end of 2010.What makes him so optimistic? How about doubling its revenues since the end of 2007? Genomatix expects to do that again by the end of this year.”We are expecting quite a bit of growth,” Grant says.Genomatix specializes in Next Generation Sequencing. That’s jargon for high efficiency sequencing, generating of terabytes of information about both human and animal genomes. Such breakthroughs could reveal a lot of secrets about life, along with diseases that hamper and end it.”NGS is the next step,” Grant says. “It’s like the first Apple computer compared to what we have today.”Source: Peter Grant CEO of GenomatixWriter: Jon Zemke