Agencourt Bioscience Corporation Employs MATLAB and Image Processing Toolbox from The MathWorks

The MathWorks today announced that Agencourt Bioscience Corporation has deployed MATLAB® and its Image Processing Toolbox. Used by leading biotech firms nationwide, these tools are helping Agencourt engineers to analyze large volumes of DNA-related information quickly and efficiently.

“We sought a powerful tool that could handle high volumes of data without requiring us to invest significant time developing and maintaining code,” said Andrew Sheridan, bio-automation engineer, Agencourt Bioscience Corporation. “MATLAB has afforded us greater confidence in our algorithms and increased flexibility in their creation.”

Based in Beverly, Mass., Agencourt is a leading provider of genomic services and nucleic acid purification products in the life sciences market. In one new research project, Agencourt is leveraging MATLAB and its Image Processing Toolbox to collect huge arrays of DNA-related data. MATLAB’s powerful data visualization tools and flexible programming environment allows this raw data to be turned quickly and effectively into information Agencourt’s scientists can use. As a result of working with The MathWorks tools, Agencourt’s engineers can develop applications rapidly and minimize the associated risks of time-consuming – and often costly – revisions in the future. As research turns into production, MATLAB will aid engineers to scale their algorithms to extract massive amounts of DNA sequence at an industrial level.

“The MathWorks is dedicated to helping customers across all industries handle large data sets more efficiently, and our tools are a natural and powerful fit for the bioscience and biotechnology communities,” said Kristen Amuzzini, The MathWorks. “Agencourt’s selection of MATLAB is a testament to its robust data analysis and sequencing capabilities. In contrast to doing the same tasks in Java, scientists without a programming background can easily use MATLAB to make adjustments and view data.”