Softberry, Inc. is a leading developer of software tools for genomic research. Our primary areas of interest and expertise are in the following areas:

Genome annotation
Functional site identification in DNA and Proteins
Sequence database managing
Genome comparison
Expression data analysis
Protein structure prediction.
Protein compartment (destination) prediction.

We develop programs in-house as well as and distribute them under license from outside copyrightholders. Many programs are improved versions of programs developed in academia. For example, well-known gene finder program FGENEH, developed originally at Sanger Center, was completely rewritten to improve its speed (10 times) and analyzed sequence length (10 times).

List of licensees of our products includes over thirty leading pharmaceutical, biotech and agricultural companies, as well as scientific institutions, from around the world. Some of them are listed here.

The company is privately held by its management and research staff, which includes programmers and bioinformatics professionals mostly from USA and Russia.