Research on human microbiome- microorganisms living in various parts of the body, majorly in gut & mouth has sparked detailed investigations into what an individual needs to be healthy. More so as 99% of the genes expressed inside our body are microbial.
Increasing interest in precision medicine & finding alternative/supplement solutions to symptom management plagued expensive healthcare treatment have led to fuelling VC money in microbiome startups globally.
From the Indian market perspective, although there are a number of companies being floated, marketing themselves as advanced gut microbiome tests, most of them, in pursuit of offering low priced products, have adopted primitive technology to just identify the diversity of microbes. This outdated technology lacks efficacy & cannot measure the genes expressed & biochemical functions performed by microbiome. The actionable constructed by these companies have failed to bring positive health outcomes.
Departing from this primitive tech model, Genefitletics, a company we founded 4 years back, is a front runner in measuring & analysing complex biochemistry of the molecular interactions taking place inside the body within microbes & between microbes & human hosts.
Going beyond DNA, we analyze the biochemical functions & genes expressed by gut & oral microbiome to provide unique molecular insights & precision therapeutics interventions.
We are working at the crossover of healthcare, biotech & machine learning to bring that consumer behavior change the world wants to see. In markets such as India, where standard interventions just manages symptoms of chronic diseases & are becoming expensive, growing population are swinging towards replacement that address the root cause of health issues & tuned towards personalisation & precision
Our system biology platform, home to our gut & oral microbiome tests, blends most advanced next generation sequencing & machine learning technologies to give a true picture of health at molecular level
In simple words, our platform is designed to collect, analyze & interpret mammoth molecular data, representing biochemistry of an individual, using next generation sequencing, cloud computing & machine learning technologies. From biological sample to interventions involving studying complex biochemistry of an individual using machine learning:
- Our platform transforms the molecules in the biological sample into digital information- the molecular data.
- Then it analyzes the data by overlaying the mathematical models to identify what is important for an individual’s health right now. In essence transforming them into quantified biological pathways.
- The pathways are translated into personalized nutrition & supplement recommendations using mathematical algorithm sitting inside our Genefitletics recommendation engine
As of today, leveraging blend of 3 technologies, we have built 8 human biology models to identify pre-disease signals & predict disease onset, unidentifiable by routine diagnostic tests, for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, Arthritis, Halitosis, Chronic Kidney DIsease, IBD, Gum Disease & Autism. We have also built a model which could predict glycemic response to 317 foods, positively impacting your metabolic health & driven insulin friendly nutrition choices.
Backed by big data infrastructure, we are building India’s first & only molecular database from our customers. When combined with metadata- symptoms, current lifestyle choices, sleep data, medications, we have built over 2 billion molecular & metadata sets & counting.
As we enter into next phase of growing our existing lines of business, we will be focussing on forging retail partnerships with pharmacies, dental clinics & hospitals to make our tests a household name, build more data around biochemistry to feed & fine tune our algorithms & expand to new product avenues as well as build prediction models for cancer & neurodegenerative disorders
In case any of Pharma companies, dental clinics or hospitals are keen to collaborate with us & make precision therapeutics a reality, they could reach out to us at support@genefitletics.com
