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Platinum Genomics

Canada's bioinformatics and 'omics specialists —above the "gold" standard.

Our locally-owned group of bioinformatics specialists will guide you through your tangled microbial 'omics landscape — from raw reads to publication-ready figures and everything in between.

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What we do

Our main services.
Ordered by increasing complexity.

Each capability is a full analysis pipeline — designed for researchers who need publication-grade rigor and clear interpretation, not just numbers.

Service

Amplicon Sequencing

16S · 18S · ITS

Identify who's who in your sequencing dataset. Modernize old, out-of-date datasets that still tell an important story by re-analyzing against current, up-to-date taxonomic databases.

  • Re-analyze legacy datasets against modern references — bring old data (like OTUs) back to current publishing standards with ASVs.
  • Choose one reference database, or run against several for cross-validation.
  • Full taxonomic profiles, diversity metrics, and publication-ready visualizations.

Supported reference databases

  • SILVA
  • Greengenes
  • GTDB
  • UNITE

Others on request.

Service

Metagenomes

Function, not just identity

Go beyond who's there to what they're capable of doing. Annotate and analyze all the DNA in a sample and reconstruct the genomes and potential pathways at play.

  • Generate MAGs (Metagenome-Assembled Genomes) from complex communities.
  • We can turn "who are they?" into "what can they do?". Dive into metabolic profiles that link community composition to functional potential.
  • Identify specific genes and targets you want and we can build dendrograms and more.

Service

Transcriptomes

Measure activity, not just presence

Analyze expressed RNA to see which genes are actually switched on — the difference between what an organism can do and what it is doing right now.

  • Differential expression across conditions, tissues, or timepoints.
  • Pathway and enrichment analysis mapped to organism-appropriate references.
  • Clean, reproducible pipelines with methods you can put straight into a manuscript.

Service

Pangenomes

Genetic and genomic diversity across global time and space

Understand what a group of related organisms share and where they diverge. Have MAGs you'd like to place in global context? We can do that for you.

  • We can identify the core, accessory, and unique genes within your genus, species, or strain.
  • We can help place your MAGs in a global genomic context. How unique is your genome to its core?
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Beyond analysis

From raw reads to publication-ready figures, methods, and insight.

We don't just run analyses — we guide you through interpretation, limitation, visualization, and provide manuscript assistance. The Platinum Genomics standard doesn't stop where the data ends; we take pride in our commitment to robust scientific analysis and communication.

Who we work with

Trusted by researchers across the country — from teaching labs to industry R&D.

  • Academic laboratories
  • Corporate R&D
  • Industry laboratories
  • Citizen scientists

Humans first

Your scientific data is
never seen by an AI agent.

Every dataset a client sends us is stored and analyzed locally and securely, never duplicated, and never shared outside our team. It's a hard line — and it's why researchers trust us with unpublished work.

Read our data-handling policy
Portrait of Gurpreet Kharey, PhD — Founder and Lead Bioinformatics Analyst at Platinum Environmental Genomics.

Founder

Gurpreet Kharey, PhD

Founder & Lead Bioinformatics Analyst

Environmental Microbiologist · Science Advisor · Environmental Consultant

A renowned expert with 10+ years in the environmental remediation of contaminated groundwater and freshwater systems in Canada, with pioneering work in pangenomics and global-scale genomics.

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Let us know what type of data you have, what analyses you have in mind, and whether you want numbers, figures, writing, or the full package.

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