Before YouTube, sharing videos online was painful. Files were too large to email, too large to host, formats were not standardized, and each video existed in isolation instead of as part of a wider database.

This is the situation we are in with omics and other medical data, but worse. Current viewers are either slow browser tools with few features, or desktop applications requiring large file downloads before use.

We want to make complex biomedical data more accessible over the internet, and critical to that is a fast, secure genomics viewer in the browser. Today we're happy to show off our viewer. It performs like a desktop application, doesn't require large file transfers, and enables secure collaboration.

The performance comes from WebGL, but the viewer also sits on top of a multimodal data warehouse we invented in-house. The warehouse streams data on demand and lets us build features that weren't possible before.

This foundation opens up a roadmap of features we're building toward.

What's next. Patients are increasingly approaching clinicians with their own genomic files, and the clinician needs to find an expert or rifle through these files for diagnostic leads. We're building comprehensive clinical mapping and easy-to-use heuristics that will make interpretation straightforward and the data accessible to the patient.

We're also working on data access more broadly. Genomic service providers rarely allow easy access or reuse of patient data. By combining our lab tests with secure web tools, we'll be able to integrate this data with health records, making it freely accessible for exploration or download by patients and providers. No more spending months filing HIPAA requests to access your own information.

Further out, we plan to enhance these tools with multimodal language models that guide scientists, providers, and patients through biomedical data in ways previously not possible.

If you're interested in trying the viewer or following our progress, email us at info@hox.bio.