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Borland Genetics

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Borland Genetics (Borland Genetics, Inc.) is a bioinformatics corporation headquartered in the state of Florida (USA), founded by Kevin Borland. The company's flagship product is the Borland Genetics Web Tools and Database, one of the largest third-party autosomal DNA matching databases. The database is linked to a series of tools geared at assisting users in reconstructing DNA profiles for their deceased ancestors.

Products

Board of Directors

  • Kevin Borland (CEO and Chief Science Officer)
  • Richard Norton (Corporate Secretary) - Pharmaceutical Discovery Scientist, formerly of Johnson & Johnson
  • John Jannotti - Professor of Computer Science at Brown University; Founder of Foodler online food ordering service

Conference Sponsorships

Borland Genetics was/is a sponsor of the following genealogy conferences:

  • Ohio Genealogical Society "Bringin' It Home" Virtual Conference (2021)
  • East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference (2022)
  • Ohio Genealogical Society "Jazz It up" Conference (Mason, Ohio 2022)
  • Skövde Genealogy Society "The Genealogy Days" Conference (Skövde, Sweden 2022)
  • Family History Down Under Conference (Sydney, Australia 2022)
  • Ohio Genealogical Society "What Brought Them Here" Conference (Sandusky, Ohio 2023)
  • East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference (Linthicum Heights, Maryland 2023)
  • Ohio Genealogical Society "Rockin' Around Your Family Tree" Conference (Sandusky, Ohio 2024)

Milestones in DNA Reconstruction

  • On December 30, 2018 the Borland Genetics Desktop Toolkit was successfully utilized to create a script to run on a user's computer in Australia to automatically reconstruct DNA kits for her four deceased grandparents and her two deceased parents, using a series of visual phasing maps in DNA Painter, by employing Borland Genetics' "Pseudo-Sibling Method" workflow. The script took approximately 13 hours to prepare in the US and then took 3 hours to run remotely on the user's computer in Australia. The process was documented in a series of videos and via a Trello board.
  • On December 11, 2019, the Borland Genetics Desktop Toolkit was successfully utilized to reconstruct 28% of the genome of Maximilian Sigmund Freudenberg, an individual born 1858 in Berlin, Germany, using the DNA of 9 of his descendants.
  • On December 8, 2022, the Borland Genetics Web Tools and Database was successfully utilized to reconstruct 10% of the genome of Salmine Sofie Severine Pedersen, an individual born 1862 in Vanse, Norway, using the DNA of 13 of her descendants.

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