Category Archives: News, events, & announcements

2022 Innovation Awards Winners

         August 31, 2022

We would like to thank everyone who entered our 2022 Innovation Awards Competition. It is always a pleasure to read and learn about the various ways Golden Helix software is applied around the world as well as the amazing research that is being done. With that said, it is our pleasure to announce this year’s winners! First Place: Ammar Husami… Read more »

2022 T-Shirt Design Competition

         August 22, 2022
2022 t-shirts

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year; Golden Helix’s Annual T-Shirt Design Competition is starting! If you’d like to participate, simply visit goldenhelix.com/t-shirt-contest and submit a sketch of your design! Don’t forget about the sweet prizes we’re handing out for the top three designs: First Place: $300 Second Place: $200 Third Place: $100 Deadline: September 14, 2022 How It Works… Read more »

A Great Return to ESHG 2022

         June 22, 2022

The Golden Helix team just returned from ESHG 2022 in Vienna, Austria. It was a great opportunity to speak with colleagues, customers, and partners face-to-face which many of us greatly missed. It has been three years since the last ESHG occurred in this format. Here are  three takeaways from this year’s show: Strong bias to action: Some NGS initiatives that… Read more »

Golden Helix Named on Inc 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 3rd Consecutive Year

         August 17, 2021

Inc. magazine today revealed that Golden Helix, Inc. is No. 3267 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained… Read more »

Golden Helix’s 2021 T-Shirt Competition Begins

         July 7, 2021

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year; Golden Helix’s Annual T-Shirt Design Competition is starting! If you’d like to participate, simply send a sketch of your design to marketing@goldenhelix.com. Don’t forget about the sweet prizes we’re handing out for the top three designs: First Place: $300 Second Place: $200 Third Place: $100 Deadline: August 25, 2021 How It Works Draw it… Read more »

Case Study – Hannover Medical School

         May 11, 2021
hannover

Dr. Auber is the team leader for the molecular genetic diagnosis of hereditary diseases at the Institute for Human Genetics at Hannover Medical School (MHH). MHH is one of the largest hospitals in northern Germany, with one of the largest outpatient clinics for individuals and families dealing with hereditary cancer and predisposition syndromes. Dr. Auber was in high school when… Read more »

2021 Abstract Competition Winners

         March 16, 2021
2020 Abstract Competition Winners

We would like to thank everyone who entered our 2021 Abstract Competition. It is wonderful to read about the different ways Golden Helix software is being applied around the world. It is our pleasure to announce this year’s winners! First Place: Viney Gupta – All India Institute of Medical Sciences – AIIMS Digenic Inheritance in Juvenile Open-AngleGlaucoma Sign up for… Read more »

Golden Helix Featured in Numerous Publications 2020

         January 12, 2021

Golden Helix continues to innovate and grow, and due to this, we have been garnering attention and praise. We are thrilled to share with you some of the accolades and interest from numerous publications from the last six months. Talking points ranged from diagnosing and tracking Covid-19 infections leveraging NGS to new workflows, interpreting and reporting on copy number variants… Read more »

Featured in The Journal of Precision Medicine: Golden Helix’s Recent Release for a New Workflow for Interpretating and Reporting Copy Number Variants in Concordance with the Recently Updated ACMG Guidelines: Introduction

         December 28, 2020

Have you seen us in The Journal of Precision Medicine? Last week, our team released VarSeq 2.2.2 loaded with a number of updates and VSClinical’s highly-anticipated ACMG-CNV Guideline workflow! We have spent the past several months sharing webcasts and blogs on this new capability. We are honored to also have this new solution recognized in The Journal of Precision Medicine… Read more »

2020/21 Abstract Competition

         November 24, 2020
Recent Customer Publications

We encourage you to share how you are utilizing Golden Helix software in your clinical research work! Golden Helix strives to enable precision medicine by developing powerful software to support researchers and clinicians with complex analyses. One of my favorite events of the year is our abstract competition. This competition allows us to help our community by recognizing innovative ways… Read more »

Golden Helix’s Virtual 2020 Conference Booth

         October 27, 2020

In lieu of conferences making the absolutely necessary decision to cancel this year’s conference, we created our Virtual 2020 Conference Booth! Even though it will never compare to the real deal, we hope you enjoy this blog post containing a few events we had planned this year. To start, let us paint the picture with some of our favorite conference… Read more »

2020 T-Shirt Design Competition Winners

         September 8, 2020
T-Shirt Design Competition

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our 2020 t-shirt design competition. It was great to see the amount of creativity our community expressed and was certainly a tough decision to make! We are pleased to announce this year’s winners: First Place – Michaela Lucas Michaela Lucas is a senior graphic design student at The Pennsylvania State University…. Read more »

Golden Helix Announces New Workflow for the Interpretation and Reporting of Copy Number Variants in Concordance with the Recently Updated ACMG Guidelines

         August 18, 2020

The detection and interpretation of Copy Number Variants (CNVs) is vital for the clinical evaluation of individuals with a wide range of disorders. Golden Helix has remained at the forefront of CNVs in Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) data since 2016 with the release of VS-CNV, our solution that allows you to both detect and analyze CNVs directly from NGS data. Earlier… Read more »

Golden Helix Named on Inc 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 2nd Consecutive Year

         August 12, 2020

Golden Helix has secured its reputation as a global leader in Next-Generation Sequencing solutions for over two decades. Today, we have been included in the esteemed Inc. 5000 list of rapidly growing American companies. Out of the 6 million business in the United States, Golden Helix has been honored with a spot in the annual list for the 2nd consecutive… Read more »

Featured in The Journal of Precision Medicine: Diagnosing and Tracking COVID-19 Infections Leveraging Next-Gen Sequencing

         July 8, 2020

It is an honor to be published in The Journal of Precision Medicine’s June/July 2020 issue in an article co-authored by Dr. Christiane Scherer and myself, “Diagnosing and Tracking COVID-19 Infections Leveraging Next-Gen Sequencing.” In this article, I detail: The key facts about COVID-19, reviewing the epidemiology, reservoir hosts, transmission routes, and clinical manifestation. Answering the question of how Next-Generation Sequencing can… Read more »

Golden Helix Featured in Various Publications

         July 8, 2020

Golden Helix has been incredibly fortunate to have been featured in a variety of publications over these last six months. Topics span from the history and future of our company to several new use cases for our solutions that extend into the infectious disease space, recently coming to fruition with the COVID-19 pandemic. We are so grateful to have received… Read more »

Golden Helix’s 2020 T-Shirt Competition Begins

         June 23, 2020

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year; Golden Helix’s Annual T-Shirt Design Competition is starting! If you’d like to participate, simply send a sketch of your design to marketing@goldenhelix.com. Don’t forget about the sweet prizes we’re handing out for the top three designs: First Place: $300 Second Place: $200 Third Place: $100 Deadline: August 25, 2020 How It Works Draw it… Read more »

Featured in Clinical OMICs: Enabling Precision Medicine with Cutting-Edge NGS Technologies

         June 22, 2020
Clinical OMICs May/June 2020

It is an honor to be featured in the Clinical OMICs May/June 2020 issue in a Q&A with the Editor discussing the past, present, and future of Golden Helix. In this article, I detail: Our most significant success throughout the past five years How our products differentiate Golden Helix in the market Our most significant opportunities in the next five years. If… Read more »

Golden Helix Named as Top 10 Genetic Diagnostics Companies of 2020

         May 28, 2020

Today, Healthcare Tech Outlook announced its collection of the Top 10 Genetic Diagnostics Companies of 2020. We are incredibly honored to have received this award and being recognized amongst the top biotech companies! If you are interested in reading our story, and why we were selected for this award, you can access the publication here: https://genetic.healthcaretechoutlook.com/vendor/golden-helix-bioinformatics-for-advanced-life-science-research-cid-1369-mid-128.html. As always, we would not be… Read more »