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"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals."
- Four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone
For those facing a new, ongoing or historical victim identification project, we can help.
Gene Codes Forensics is a global leader in forensic human identification. The company’s, industry leading M-FISys® program (pronounced like emphasis), is a software and database suite used by governments and NGO’s around the world for disaster response, post-conflict identification and missing persons identification. M-FISys, the Mass-Fatality Identification System, is also used for criminal case work, paternity testing, and many other applications where DNA can be applied to putting names to individuals and family members.
Gene Codes Corporation was founded in 1988, and the company’s DNA sequencing software was a cornerstone to the original international Human Genome Project, used by almost every major pharmaceutical, genomics and research institution in the world. Forensics was once a very small part of the company’s focus. Thirteen years after the first company was founded, Gene Codes Forensic was formed for the unprecedented human identification needs created by the attack on the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center on 9/11, 2001.
Scientists, aid agencies and policymakers around the world use the tools, resources and consulting of Gene Codes Forensics. These are our clients, but we never forget that our company mission is one that we share with those clients. Most often, that mission is to provide dignity and respect for the dead and for those who loved them. We consider it a duty and an honor to use our skills and technology to help people who are not empowered to help themselves. In some cases, by fulfilling that mission, the people who make up the staff at Gene Codes Forensics not only ease the pain of survivors, but are privileged to support the cause of justice.
For the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, clients and families of victims were invited to send messages to tell members of our staff about the difference that the company and the M-FISys software and databases had made in their lives. A few are shared here, with permission. These stories and countless more like them are the motivation for what we do.
Libya General Authority for Search and Identification of Missing Persons
Israel National Center for Forensic Medicine
Forensic Anthropoology Foundation of Guatemala
Kenya Ministry of Health and the 2011 Kenya Pipeline Company Fire
Spain DNA-ProKids project and identifications from the Spanish Civil War
The City of New York response to 9/11
The family of a New York Firefighter killed on 9/11