About Us
Since 1988, Gene Codes Corporation has been developing cutting-edge
software products for DNA sequence analysis. Our desktop product,
Sequencher®, is the most widely used sanger sequence assembly software
program in academic, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical life sciences
laboratories around the world.
In 1997, we began developing specialized capabilities in
Sequencher for doing forensic-oriented mtDNA
analysis, and these analysis tools are now the standard at the Armed Forces DNA
Identification Laboratory [AFDIL] and the FBI as well as most forensic
Mitochondrial DNA labs.
After September 11th, 2001, Gene Codes Corporation was called on
by the City of New York to help identify innocent victims of the terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center. Gene Codes Forensics was established as a
subsidiary of Gene Codes Corporation to carry out this critical work. The
resulting set of tools has become known as M-FISys® (pronounced
"emphasis"), the Mass-Fatality Identification System. It is an
extraordinary application with the ability to manage forensic DNA information
on what was then a completely unprecedented scale.
Gene Codes Forensics is now a global leader in disaster victim
identification. Many States and Countries have established M-FISys as the
central DNA resource for their identification needs. Our software and
consulting services have also been called on in response to airline accidents,
missing persons investigations, natural disasters, and many human rights
projects.
M-FISys is a resource the world for ordinary police work and
humanitarian emergencies. From Guatemala and Granada,
to Kenya and the KSA, to Panamá and Perú. From Argentina to
Zimbabwe.
Gene Codes Forensics has helped recover dead from past wars so
that they could be laid to rest with dignity and love, find victims of
atrocities in Libya and put names to the murdered and disappeared in
Guatemala’s civil war. It has been applied to detect and interdict human
trafficking with the DNA-ProKids project, and the
series of forensic identification nodes set up by the United States
Department of State throughout Central America and in the Southern part
of the U.S.
After natural disasters with tragic loss of life, like Volcán de Fuego in 2018, Cyclone Idai in 2019, and
Storm Daniel in 2023, Gene Codes Forensics is called on for help.
After accidents like the Crash of American Airlines flight 587 in
2001 and the Sinai Slum Fire at the Kenya Pipeline Company almost exactly 10
years later, M-FISys was a central technology used to identify the victims and
return their remains to the people who loved them.
During armed conflicts, and decades after wars have ended, M-FISys
is used to give names back to those who died, from as long ago as the Spanish
Civil War to as recently as the 2023 conflict between Israel and Hamas, and
many military actions in between including Vietnam, Peru, Libya
and El Salvador. When there is a tragic need, Gene Codes Forensics stands
ready to help.