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Business idea: BiotaP focuses on development and production of high troughput metagenomic data based test systems for analysing various microorganism communities. The method enables also better analysis of the environment. BiotaP OÜ was founded in 2007 by Estonian biotechnology companies Genomictoolbox OÜ and Bioinf OÜ.
Microorganisms represent 2/3 of life and contain vast biological diversity that is the product of an estimated 3.8 billion years of evolution. In many environments, as many as 99% of the microorganisms cannot be cultured by standard techniques, and the uncultured fraction includes diverse organisms that are only distantly related to the cultured ones. Therefore, culture-independent methods, like metagenomics, are essential to understand the genetic diversity, population structure, and ecological roles of the majority of microorganisms. Metagenomics has potential to answer fundamental questions in microbial ecology.
The main services of Biotap are:
• Custom-development, design and production of PCR-based environmental monitoring test kits;
• Customized environmental diagnostics service based on high throughput sequencing methodology;
• Technology license sales for production of test kits for specific environment- geographical location combinations.
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These services enables quickly and simply evalue ’health’ and changes of the environment, based on the amount of specific micro-organisms for instance in dirt, clean water, air, food etc.
BiotaP is the first company in Europe developing metagenomic test systems.
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