2009

Gene Codes launches Sequencher 4.9 for Windows and Mac platforms in March 2009.

2007

Gene Codes launches Sequencher 4.8 for Windows and Mac platforms in October 2007.

2006

Gene Codes launches Sequencher 4.6 for Windows and Mac platforms in March 2006 and Sequencher 4.7 for both platforms in October 2006.

2005

Gene Codes Corporation personnel are on the ground in Thailand soon after the devastating tsunami and provide assistance and DNA identification services using M-FISys

Gene Codes launches Sequencher 4.5 for Windows and Mac platforms.

2004

Gene Codes launches Sequencher for Macintosh OSX while continuing to support Classic Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

2002

775 Technology Drive in Ann Arbor, Michigan, becomes our new headquarters.

2001

New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner [OCME] asks Gene Codes to assist in the effort to identify the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. Gene Codes Forensics is formed as a wholly owned subsidiary. Gene Codes' employees and shareholders respond wholeheartedly to this call to service. The first iteration of MFISYS ("EMPHASIS"), the mass fatality identification system, is released in December 2001. The WTC effort concludes in February, 2005.

2000

The Forensic version of Sequencher becomes the standard at the FBI and other labs around the world engaged in identification through mtDNA sequencing.

1999

Gene Codes opens offices in Philadelphia and the United Kingdom.

1998

With substantial new enhancements for mutation detection and expressed protein comparisons, Gene Codes launches on the Microsoft Windows platform.

1997

Gene Codes builds a special Forensic version of Sequencher for the U.S. Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory [AFDIL]. The Forensic Build of Sequencher facilitates identification by "mitotyping," the sequencing of the hypervariable regions of the mitochondrial genome. AFDIL uses Sequencher to help identify the remains of American service men and women who have died in active duty so they can be returned to their families.

1993 to 1997

Nearly every major pharmaceutical company and commercial genomics company in the world standardizes on Sequencher, as do most labs at major academic centers.

1991

At the Cellular Biology meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, Gene Codes introduces Sequencher, for the analysis and assembly of DNA fragments.

1988

Howard Cash, President and C.E.O. incorporates Gene Codes in Ann Arbor, Michigan.