 Computomics was founded in October 2012 after the enormous decline in price of genome sequencing brought on by Next generation sequencing.Six scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society and University of Tübingen noted that plant genome sequencing was now tenable, but data analysis would remain a bottleneck.Computomics has been featured in several nationwide publications, because it is one of very few companies focusing on plant breeding and plant genome analysis.