Hitachi Software is one of Japan’s largest software companies, with $1.5 billion in revenues and over 5,000 employees. MiraiBio, based in San Francisco, is the life-science group of Hitachi Software’s US subsidiary and specializes in software, reagents and instruments for biological and biomedical research.
One of MiraiBio’s offerings is DNASIS SmartNote, an online notebook for DNA, RNA and protein sequencing analysis. This web-based tool compiles several popular bioinformatics tools and allows biomedical researchers to easily analyze sequences and share the results with their colleagues.