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Tree-of-life scale genomics

Tree-of-life–scale homology search built on object storage. Fast, accurate, 10× cheaper, and infinitely scalable.

Query execution

A staged cascade: cheapest, most-selective work first; exact proof last.

A query is not a scan. It descends through stages that each read only what the previous stage could not rule out, and no candidate is reported until it has been verified exactly.

  1. 01

    Seed

    Amino-acid k-mers select the candidate segments a query touches. Everything downstream operates on that reduced set; the rest of the release is never opened.

  2. 02

    Prune & promote

    Pruning descends from segments to granules to byte-range frames; postings are fetched only for survivors. What gets skipped is budgeted explicitly from block-impact upper bounds — a bounded decision, not a heuristic guess.

  3. 03

    Verify

    Promoted candidates are aligned exactly with Smith-Waterman. Only verified candidates are returned, each carrying the recall risk it closed and the objects it was computed from.

Rafflesia homology

Search biology at corpus scale.

Bring a corpus, a homology-search workload, or a recall-versus-cost problem. We’ll help you compile it into a release and serve it.

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